Anna-Katharina Ferl

Before joining CISAC, Anna worked as a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and completed her PhD in Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt. During her doctoral studies, she was a research fellow at the German Federal Foreign Office, Cornell University, and the University of Southern Denmark. Anna has also conducted field research at the United Nations in Geneva.

Anna’s research focuses on the intersection between politics, international security, and technology, with a specific focus on military applications of AI and autonomy. She is interested in how these technological developments shape human-machine relations and how they change understandings of the human role in future warfare. This also influences how AI technologies could be politically regulated and governed.