Katarzyna Zysk

Dr Katarzyna Zysk is Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), part of the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) in Oslo. At the IFS, she also served as Deputy Director (2017-21), as well as Head of Centre for Security Policy, and Director of Research. In 2016, she was Acting Dean of the NDUC, where she teaches regularly.  Following her 2006 PhD thesis on NATO enlargement, her research has focused on international security, defence, and strategic studies, with a special focus on Russia’s military doctrine, strategy, armed forces; security and defence policies; nuclear strategy; naval strategy, security in the Arctic; as well as AI and emerging technologies and defence innovation. Dr Zysk was visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, the Changing Character of War Centre (CCW) at the University of Oxford, member of the Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), and at Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College (USNWC). She has served as Advisory Board Member of the Transatlantic Deterrence Dialogue Initiative, and she is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Core Group Member of the Russia Transatlantic Forum at the Center for a New American Security. Her published research has appeared in peer-reviewed and popular outlets, including SAIS Review of International Affairs, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Journal of Strategic Studies, Asia Policy, RUSI Journal, Politique Etrangère, Jane’s Navy International, War on the Rocks, and others.