Members
The ACGO research team combines scholars in international relations, international law and data science to analyze arms control, technological change, and global order from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Dr. Oscar Prust, Spokesperson
Postdoc | Political Science and Law
Main areas of work and research
- International security and changing global order (multipolarization)
- Arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, particularly regarding new technologies
- International law principles of international security (international humanitarian law, collective security, international treaty law)
- International organisations and institutional security order
- Foreign policy strategies of major and middle powers
Dr. des. René Theuerkauf
Postdoc | Data Science
Main areas of work and research
- Natural language processing and automated text analysis (machine learning)
- Development of scalable analysis architectures for large text corpora
- Computational methods in the social sciences
- Data-based analysis of international, multi-language negotiation processes
Dr. Jasper Finkeldey
Postdoc | Political Science
Main areas of work and research
- Critical raw materials and strategic resource policy
- Geopolitics of global value chains
- Security and technology policy in the context of ecological transformation
- Political ecology of extraction, resources, and conflict
- Resource policy and international power shifts
Alisa Grunert, M.A.
PhD student | Political Science
Main areas of work and research
- Technological transformation of military capabilities
- Cognitive, hybrid, and nonkinetic forms of warfare
- Technological change and international security dynamics
- International relations in the context of technology, war, and order
Hans Eckardt, M.Sc.
Postgraduate | Data Science
Main areas of work and research
- Natural language processing and text mining
- Automated analysis of political text data
- Development of scalable data and analysis workflows
- Data infrastructures for social science research
- Methods of computational social science