IFSH (Germany)
IFSH Hamburg researches the conditions for peace and security in Germany, Europe, and beyond. It conducts its research autonomously and independently. The “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies” program at IFSH provides sound scholarly analyses and policy-relevant concepts that enhance peace and security. Our international team comes from various scholarly fields, including from the social sciences, physics, and history. Our interdisciplinary approach allows us to analyse new technological and political challenges from a range of perspectives. We assess the impact of technological innovation on peace and security, and we examine the complex interdependencies of present-day arms dynamics. Additionally, an important part of our work involves policy consultation. In this capacity, we work closely with the federal government and with international organisations, research centres, and NGOs. We interact with the public through op-eds and interviews for leading daily newspapers, online outlets, and broadcast stations.
Contact information
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
Beim Schlump 83, 20144 Hamburg
Tel: +49 (0)40 866 077-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 866 077-88
Website: https://www.ifsh.de/
Point of contact
Dr. Ulrich Kühn
Head, Arms Control and Emerging Technologies
kuehn@ifsh.de
Phone +49 40 86 60 77-0
Twitter @DrUlrichKuehn
The team
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Dr. Ulrich Kühn Head of Program Tel. +49 (0)40 866 077 41 |
Ulrich Kühn is the Head of IFSH’s Arms Control and Emerging Technologies program. He is also a Nonresident Scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he worked for the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation and for the German Federal Foreign Office. He is a former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, the founder of the trilateral Deep Cuts Commission and an alumnus of the ZEIT Foundation. |
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Dr. Tobias Fella Researcher Tel. +49 (0)30 240 47 75 14 |
Tobias Fella is Head of the IFSH’s Challenges to Deep Cuts project. Previously, he worked for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), the Hertie School and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), among others. He received his PhD in political science from Humboldt University of Berlin. His thesis explored the idea of US decline as a world power in neoconservative thought. |
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Christopher Fichtlscherer Researcher Tel. +49 (0) 40 413 30 76 09 |
Christopher Fichtlscherer joined the “Arms Control and New Technologies” project as a researcher in March 2021. He works on the DSF-funded project, “Nuclear Warhead Authentication Based on Gamma and Neutron Emissions – How to Discourage Cheating?”. In parallel, he is pursuing a PhD in the “Nuclear Verification and Disarmament” research group at RWTH Aachen, supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He has a background in mathematics and physics and has undertaken research stays at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security and MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy. |
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Dr. Alexander Graef Senior Researcher Tel. +49 (0)40 413 30 76 05 |
Alexander Graef joined IFSH in March 2019. He submitted his PhD thesis on Russian Experts and Think Tanks in the field of foreign and security policy at the University of St. Gallen. He was a “Doc.Mobility” fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2017. Since 2015, he is part of the FLEET-network of young experts specialising in security and cooperation in wider Europe. |
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Dr. Moritz Kütt Senior Researcher Tel. +49 (0)40 41 33 076 01 |
Moritz Kütt leads the Working Group „Science and Disarmament“ and co-directs the Research and Transfer Project „Arms Control and Emerging Technologies (Phase II).“ He joined the research area “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies” at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) in 2019 and continues to closely collaborate with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security as a Visiting Research Scholar. Since March 2023, Moritz Kütt is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. He studied physics and political science, and received his PhD in physics from TU Darmstadt in 2016. |
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Dr. Jantje Silomon Senior Researcher Tel. +49 (0)40 413 30 76 02 |
Jantje Silomon joined IFSH in April 2019. Previously, she was a PhD candidate at Oxford University where she conducted her research on the topic of malware weaponisation. She completed her BSc in Computer Science, before spending some time in South East Asia, predominantly China. Upon returning to London, she worked in academia and industry, while also gaining an MRes in International Security and Global Governance. |
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Dr. Neil Renic Researcher Tel. +49 (0)40 413 30 76 04 |
Neil Renic lectured international security and peace and conflict analysis at the University of Queensland, Australia. He received his doctorate from the University of Queensland and spent twelve months as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. His PhD addressed the moral right to kill in war, and the extent to which this right is challenged by the growing capability of certain states to kill with little or no physical risk to their own forces. |
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Dr. Jantje Silomon Researcher Tel. +49 (0)40 413 30 76 04 |
Jantje Silomon joined IFSH in April 2019. Previously, she was a PhD candidate at Oxford University where she conducted her research on the topic of malware weaponisation. She completed her BSc in Computer Science, before spending some time in South East Asia, predominantly China. Upon returning to London, she worked in academia and industry, while also gaining an MRes in International Security and Global Governance. |
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Franziska Stärk Researcher Tel. +49 (0)40 413 30 76 08 |
Franziska Stärk is a researcher at IFSH focusing on nuclear arms control and critical security studies. In her dissertation project, she studies intergenerational justice and nuclear weapons. In the beginning of 2023, she stepped down as the coordinator of the Young Deep Cuts Commission. Previously, she worked as a Policy Advisor for the Munich Security Conference. She is an alumna of the French Réseau Nucléaire et Stratégie – Nouvelle Génération and the German National Academic Scholarship Foundation. Franziska studied Political Science and Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen (B.A.) and International Security at Sciences Po Paris (M.A.) . |
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