Dr Raluca Csernatoni is a Professor on European security and defence focusing on new technologies with the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) and its Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium.
Csernatoni is currently a Research Fellow working on the nexus between European defence and emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, Belgium. At Carnegie Europe, she is a Team Leader on new technologies for the EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative - EU Cyber Direct project and also leads Carnegie Europe’s research project on ‘The EU’s Constructive Techno-Politics of AI’ supported by the McGovern AI Grant.
Recently, Csernatoni joined as Visiting Faculty on new technologies and warfare the Department of International Relations of Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria. She is also a Co-Leader of the ‘Governance of Emerging Technology’ Research Group with the Centre on Security and Crisis Governance, at the Royal Military College Saint Jean, Canada.
Previously, Csernatoni was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer with the Department of International Relations of the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. There, she focused on the impact of new and emerging military capabilities and dual-use technologies such as drones and AI systems on European security and defence. Csernatoni holds a PhD and master’s degree in international relations from Central European University.
Csernatoni has conducted research on the EU’s security, defence, and tech policies at the Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), at the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defence’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and at the International Security Information Service Europe in Brussels. She was also a Research Fellow in the Study Program on European Security (SPES) at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin, Germany.
Her published work appeared in academic journals such as Geopolitics, European Foreign Affairs Review, European Security, Critical Military Studies, Global Affairs, and European View. Her co-edited book, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes, was published with the Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology Series in 2020. She has authored numerous book chapters, policy analysis articles, long reports, op-eds, and commentary pieces on the EU’s defence, technological, digital and cyber initiatives, as well as the innovation and governance of emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) such as AI.
