European Cybersecurity

Fellowship
2023-2024

Programme
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Introduction

The ECCRI European Cybersecurity Fellowship is a

year-long program to develop highly talented young
European professionals who are interested in accelerating
their career in cybersecurity policy. The fellowship 2023-2024
welcomes fourteen fellows from government, civil society,
academia, the private sector, and journalism. Fellows are
selected for their strong interest in cybersecurity and a
passion for driving change.

Fellows will participate in a series of workshops with topics

ranging from EU cyber policy, content moderation, and cyber
norms building processes to building practical skills in
technical analysis. Fellows will also receive support in
policy-relevant writing, gain access to networking events,
attend lunches, and receive updates about the latest
opportunities in the field.

After graduating from the program, fellows will join ECCRI’s

Alumni network, where they will find continued support from
the ECCRI team, its partnership network, and fellow Alumni in
their career development.

The fellowship is made possible through institutional

partnerships with Microsoft, the Ministry of Foreign and
European Affairs of Malta, and the William & Flora Hewlett
Foundation.

Fellows 2023-2024............................................................................................ 4
Programme 2023-2024................................................................................... 12
Fellowship Alumni........................................................................................... 28
Fellowship Management................................................................................. 29
About ECCRI...................................................................................................31

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Fellows 2023-2024

Alžběta Bajerová is a threat analyst at

NATO HQ’s Cyber Threat Analysis Branch,
where she provides advisory to NATO’s
leadership on cyber-enabled threats. She
focuses on topics of cyber defence,
state-sponsored cyber activities and
cyber-enabled influence, including as a
Research Fellow at the Association for
International Affairs in Prague. She has over five years of
experience working in the public sector on defence-related
issues, including at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre
of Excellence, Czech National Cyber and Information Security
Agency, and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in China.
Alžběta is a co-founder Zvol Si Info, an award-winning
non-governmental organization that fights disinformation
through media literacy education. Previously, Alžběta worked
as a journalist covering international politics and continues to
occasionally contribute to the media. Alžběta holds a MA
degree in Security Studies from Masaryk University, where
she also gained a BA in both International Relations and
Security Studies.

Nils Brinker is a researcher at the Digital

Society Institute (DSI) at the European
School of Management and Technology
(ESMT Berlin). His current research focuses
on systematizing cybersecurity law to
strengthen operational cyber resilience
through more coherent and effective
regulation. Before joining the DSI, he worked
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as a data protection specialist in the private insurance sector.
He holds a B.Sc. in Business Information Systems from the
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW
Stuttgart), and a B.Sc. in Economics and Law from the
University of Münster. He has a strong interest in
interdisciplinary research and debate, working towards more
effective governance through improved mutual
understanding.

Cat (Catherine) Easdon is a researcher and

security engineer at Dynatrace in Austria,
where she focuses on privacy engineering,
translating law and policy into code to
protect users. Cat’s background is in
research at the intersection of privacy and
security. Previously, she worked on CPU
attacks and mitigations at Graz University of
Technology, investigating how hardware implementation
details lead to timing or power consumption differences that
leak sensitive data within software. Her current research in
her early career fellowship at the Internet Society explores
cultural differences in user’s privacy needs and how software
can best meet these (sometimes conflicting) needs. She
holds an MEng in Computer Science from Bristol University,
where she specialised in security and computer architecture.

Amy Ertan is a Cyber and Hybrid Policy

Officer at NATO Headquarters where she
supports the development of cyber policies
and initiatives across the Alliance. Amy
holds a PhD in Information Security from
Royal Holloway University of London, where
her doctoral research focused on the
security implications of artificial intelligence
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in military contexts. Her broader research interests in cyber
strategy and emerging security challenges have led to
publications on topics including national cyber capabilities,
military exercising, offensive cyber and cyber risk
management. Previously, Amy was a Cyber Strategy
Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre
of Excellence and a Cybersecurity Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a former
Co-Lead for the Offensive Cyber Working Group, an
academic-led initiative bringing together diverse academic
experts together to discuss and research offensive cyber
themes. Amy has worked in private sector roles in cyber
intelligence, cyber exercise design, and human factors
cybersecurity research. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy,
Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and
holds CISSP and CRTIA (threat intelligence) qualifications.

Aideen Fay is a Senior Security Software

Engineer on the Microsoft Threat Hunting
team. Aideen leads the team’s investments
into tooling and automation, enabling
effective hunting for adversaries across
Microsoft’s rapidly growing cloud estate. This
involves developing statistical techniques,
machine learning models, and advanced
visualizations that can detect subtle signs of adversary
activity in over 100 petabytes of data every day. Aideen is
passionate about systems thinking and using data science
and mathematics to help humans understand and model
complex system behaviour. She is also a climate change
activist and volunteers as an AI for Good Engineer with
FruitPunch AI on various climate change and conservation
projects. For example, she previously assisted researchers in
adopting modern machine learning tools to develop a facial
recognition model that monitors seal populations. Currently,
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she is working to optimise and deploy an audio recognition
model on edge devices across several of Africa’s nature
reserves to detect elephant poaching.

Jacopo Franceschini is a Ph.D. Candidate

at the International Relations Department of
Kadir Has University (Istanbul), focusing on
cybersecurity and cyber healthcare policy
and regulation in Turkey and the
Mediterranean region. Differences and
commonalities among strategies,
approaches, and legislation in cybersecurity
in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries are his main
areas of expertise and interest. Jacopo has worked as a
researcher on security matters in several think tanks between
Belgium and Turkey, such as European Neighbourhood
Council (Brussels), Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and
Istanbul Policy Center. He holds a Master’s in Law from the
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan) and a
Specializing Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies at ASERI
(Graduate School of Economics and International Relations
of Milan).

Elena Kaiser is the Legal and Policy Advisor

of the Luxembourg National Cybersecurity
Agency and she is, as such, an expert in the
field of cybersecurity and data protection.
Combining her personal interests with this
expertise, she is also successfully managing
several cybersecurity capacity building and
gender inclusion projects. Since January 2022, she is part of
the Luxembourg delegation for the negotiation of the new UN
convention on cybercrime and also represents Luxembourg in
various other international and European conferences on
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topics related to cybersecurity and Internet Governance.
Elena holds a Ph.D. in Public, International and European
Law at the University of Milan, carrying out a research on the
need to protect the right to privacy with regard to the
development of new technologies, in particular surveillance
measures by governments. Elena is also a qualified attorney
in law, specialising in criminal law, fundamental rights
protection and technology related regulations. Elena is fluent
in English, German, French and Italian.

Mamuka Kirkitadze is a Digital Manager at

the London-based communications agency
Zinc Network. Among other things, he’s
responsible for conducting research using
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) on
various topics. He also occupies the position
of Policy Analyst at the Global Foundation
for Cyber Studies and Research on
part-time bases. In this role, he focuses on researching the
role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity. Currently,
Mamuka represents the ECCRI at the Community of
Democracies (CoD) Working Group on Democracy and
Technology (WGD&T). Mamuka holds a MA in international
relations from Ilia State University and is an alumnus of the
Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies
(GFSIS) National Security and Public Policy training program.
His main interests include researching state-sponsored cyber
attacks coming from Russia and China as well as using
offensive cyber operations during kinetic warfare. He has
published and co-authored several peer-reviewed articles and
expert opinion papers on state-sponsored cyber operations.

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 Ingunn Helene Landsend Monsen is a
Scientific Researcher at the Norwegian
Defence Research Establishment where she
works with analyzing technological trends
and the implications these may have for
future military operations. She holds an IntM
in Security, Intelligence and Strategic
Studies awarded by a consortium of three
universities under the Erasmus Mundus umbrella; Glasgow
University, Dublin City University and Charles University
Prague. During her master’s degree, she pursued a
specialization in Security and Technology, with emphasis put
on inter-state cyber operations. Previously, she has worked in
the humanitarian and political space, and holds a BA in
International Studies from the University of Oslo. Her
research interests lie within the impact of new technologies
on policy and interstate competition and conflict, with the
major emphasis on cyber conflict within this field.

Katharine Palmer is a Cyber Threat

Intelligence Analyst at Security Alliance. As
well as producing threat landscape analysis
for a wide range of clients, she specialises in
assessing the relationship between
geopolitical developments and the cyber
threat landscape. She has authored several
research papers, including an analysis of
cyber threats to African financial services for
the World Bank and authoritarian state use of spyware. Her
wider research interests include cyber-enabled influence
operations, social media and disinformation and the impact of
technology on democratic processes, as well as the history of
intelligence and covert operations. She studied History and
German at Durham University and holds a Master’s in

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Intelligence and International Security from Kings’ College
London.

Lena Riecke is a PhD candidate at Leiden

University’s Institute of Security and Global
Affairs. Her research is situated at the
intersection of law, intelligence studies, and
cybersecurity. It investigates regimes for
governing the market for cyber surveillance
technologies (viz. spyware). Lena’s previous
research projects examined the protection of
civilian data during international armed conflict and the
regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems under
international humanitarian law. She holds a BA in Law from
the University of Cambridge as well as a LLM in Public
International Law from Leiden University.

Jasmin Stadler works in Swiss law

enforcement as a digital forensics specialist.
Previously, she served as a cyber defence
project manager in the general secretariat of
the Swiss Ministry of Defence, after having
started her career in Blackrock’s Financial
Markets Advisory. She specialised in
cybersecurity policy for her master’s degree
in comparative government at the University of Oxford, and
read a combination of politics, economics and data science
for her undergraduate degree at UCL and Sciences Po, Paris.
She is an inaugural Schwarzman Scholar, speaks fluent
Mandarin Chinese, German and French, and is learning
Korean.

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 Julian-Ferdinand Vögele is a threat
researcher at Recorded Future’s Insikt
Group with extensive experience in malware
research, threat hunting, and intelligence.
Julian-Ferdinand’s focus lies on malware
analysis and the development of detections
for proactive identification of malicious
infrastructure. Before joining Recorded
Future, Julian-Ferdinand worked as an IT security consultant
at Security Research Labs, where he conducted security
research and engaged in red team exercises. He completed
his masters in computer science at UCL in London and is a
scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Nicolas Zahn studied political science,

public law, and economics at the University
of Zürich (B.A) and international affairs at the
Graduate Institute Geneva and George
Washington University Washington D.C.
(M.A). He is a long-time member and
frequent contributor for the Swiss-based
think-tanks foraus and reatch and publishes
regularly on various aspects of digital transformation and
politics. After a Mercator fellowship on international affairs
with a focus on digital transformation in the public sector he
worked as an IT consultant and now works as Digital Trust
Expert and Operations Manager at the Swiss Digital Initiative
as well as an independent Digital Expert. In addition to
lectures he also engages politically in all things cyber. He
lives in Zürich.

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Programme 2023-2024

Workshops...................................................................................................... 12
Op-Eds............................................................................................................ 21
Mandiant Threat Intelligence Training............................................................. 24
Conferences.................................................................................................... 26
Fellowship Book Club......................................................................................26
Brussels Field Trip...........................................................................................27
Lunches...........................................................................................................27
Grants..............................................................................................................28

01 Workshops

The core programme of the fellowship is a workshop series

that connects ECCRI fellows with leading cybersecurity policy
experts. The workshops are led as open discussions and
allow fellows to gain expert insights into timely cybersecurity
policy issues. The workshop speakers have been selected to
represent a range of sectors and competences in
cybersecurity policy issues. The speakers are leading
practitioners and thinkers in their fields within government,
the private sector, and journalism.

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W or kshop Sc hedule

Speaker Organization Position

Massimo International Committee of Head of the Data

Marelli the Red Cross Protection Office,
Head of Delegation
for Cyberspace a.i.

Mauro Vignati International Committee of Adviser on new digital

the Red Cross technologies of
warfare

Yuliana Belarusian Cyber-Partisans Political

Shemetovets Representative,
Belarusian activist

Charley Google Head of Security

Snyder Policy

Western Intelligence Agency

Rachael Falk Cyber Security Cooperative Chief Executive

Research Centre Officer

Alicia Wanless Carnegie Endowment for Director of the

International Peace Partnership for
Countering Influence
Operations

Lindsay Human Rights Center, UC Director of

Freeman Berkeley School of Law Technology, Law, and
Policy

Jack Cable Senior Technical Advisor Cybersecurity and

Infrastructure Security
Agency

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Confir med W or kshop Speak er s

Massimo Marelli is the Head of Delegation

of the first ICRC Delegation for Cyberspace,
in Luxembourg. He is also a member of the
Data Protection Commission at CERN.
Massimo is a member of the Advisory Board
and a Fellow of the European Centre on
Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) at the
University of Maastricht, co-director of the
Humanitarian Action Programme at ECPC, and the co-editor
of the DigitHarium, a global forum to discuss and debate
digital transformation within the humanitarian sector, with a
focus on humanitarian protection, policy, ethics and action.
He is also a member of the Brussels Privacy Hub Advisory
Board, and the co-editor of the Handbook on Data Protection
in Humanitarian Action.

Prior to his current role, Massimo established and headed the

Data Protection Office at the ICRC, and held several
assignments with the ICRC in the field and at the
headquarters. He also worked as lawyer at the UK Office of
Fair Trading, Referendaire at the EU General Court in
Luxembourg and as lawyer in private practice.

Mauro Vignati is adviser on new digital

technologies of warfare at the International
Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in
Geneva, Switzerland. Mauro has 20 years of
experience in cyber threat intelligence and
cybersecurity.

Previous to joining the ICRC, he worked for

the Swiss federal police and the Swiss department of
defense. He also worked for MELANI, Switzerland’s first
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centre for public-private partnership on cybersecurity for
critical infrastructure, and for the National Cyber Security
Centre, where he was tasked to establish the Vulnerability
Management Unit.

Yuliana Shemetovets is a Belarusian

activist and Political Spokesperson for
Belarusian Cyber-Partisans. She also works
as Saas Application Administrator for Claims
Conference.

Charley Snyder is the Head of Security

Policy at Google. In this role, Charley leads
efforts to organise Google's security
expertise and technology to solve global
challenges related to safety and security
online. Before joining Google, he was a
senior vice president at Goldman Sachs
Group, where he was Global Head of
Vulnerability Management and led the firm’s zero-trust
security strategy. Previously, Charley served in the US
Department of Defense, including as Deputy Director of
Strategic Cyber Defense and Capabilities in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, and as a Senior Cyber Policy Advisor.
Earlier in his career, Charley was a professional staff member
for the US House of Representatives Committee on
Homeland Security.

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 Lindsay Freeman is the Director of
Technology, Law, and Policy at the Human
Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Freeman is an international criminal and
human rights lawyer with experience working
at the International Criminal Court and the
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia. She specializes in the use of
technology, digital evidence and online investigations for
justice and accountability purposes, particularly in the
investigation and prosecution of atrocity crimes. Freeman led
the drafting team of the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open
Source Investigations, which the Center co-published with the
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She
now runs the Center’s professional training program and
oversees the Investigation Lab’s case-building and strategic
litigation teams. She is a member of the ABA's International
Criminal Justice Standards Advisory Group and a visiting
scholar of practice at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of
Government. Previously, Freeman worked as a trial lawyer for
the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and a law clerk in
the U.S. Attorney’s Economic Crime and Securities Fraud
Unit. She holds an Adv. LL.M. in public International Law from
Leiden University, a J.D. from University of San Francisco
School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury
College.

Jack Cable is currently a Senior Technical

Advisor at the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.

Before CISA, Jack worked as a

TechCongress Fellow for Senator Gary
Peters, advising on cybersecurity policy,

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including election security and open source software security.

Jack previously was a Security Architect at Krebs Stamos

Group. Prior to that, Jack served as an Election Security
Technical Advisor at CISA, where he created Crossfeed, a
pilot to scan election assets nationwide.

Jack rose to top ranks in bug bounty programs, having

identified over 350 vulnerabilities in companies including
Google, Facebook, Uber, Yahoo, and the U.S. Department of
Defense. He is ranked within the top 100 hackers all-time on
HackerOne. For this work, Jack was named to Time
Magazine's list of the 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018.

After placing first in the Hack the Air Force bug bounty
challenge, Jack joined the Defense Digital Service out of high
school, where he helped run the Hack the Pentagon bug
bounty portfolio, advised on the next iteration of the DoD
Vulnerability Disclosure Program, and built innovative
cybersecurity assessment tools.

Jack studied computer science at Stanford, where he worked

as a researcher with the Stanford Empirical Security
Research Group and the Stanford Internet Observatory

Rachael Falk is one of Australia’s leading

cyber security and policy experts.

Rachael is the Chief Executive Officer of the

Cyber Security Cooperative Research
Centre (CSCRC), leading a high-level
collaboration between government, industry
and research institutions.

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She was recently appointed by the Home Affairs Minister as
one of three members of an Expert Advisory Board,
developing the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy.
Last November, Rachael led the Independent Review into
Home Affairs’ Cyber Incident Management of the Optus and
Medibank breaches.

She was also a member of the former Federal Government’s

Industry Advisory Committee to help guide the
implementation of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020.
Rachael has a background in commercial law and cyber
security, practicing as a lawyer for more than a decade -
working at top-tier firms in Australia, the UK and with Telstra.
She has also co-authored several key policy papers about
ransomware, cyber insurance and IoT cyber security.

Rachael holds an Advanced Masters in National Security

Policy (Hons) from the Australian National University (ANU),
Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS) and a Bachelor of Arts (ANU).

Alicia Wanless is the director of the

Partnership for Countering Influence
Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, which aims to foster
evidence-based policymaking for the
governance of the information environment.
She is developing the Institute for Research
on the Information Environment, a
multinational, multistakeholder research facility. Alicia created
a multistakeholder network in partnership with the G7 Rapid
Response Network to support information integrity efforts in
Ukraine. Alicia was a technical advisor to Aspen Institute’s
Commission on Information Disorder and is a founding
member of its Global Cybersecurity Group. She is also an
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expert advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Global
Coalition for Digital Safety. At King’s College London in War
Studies, she completed her PhD combining strategic theory
and ecology in a new approach to understanding conflict
within the information environment.

Miles Taylor is an American government

official who served in the administrations of
George W. Bush and Donald Trump. In the
administration of the latter, he was an
appointee who served in the United States
Department of Homeland Security from 2017
to 2019, including as chief of staff of the
DHS.

Taylor wrote The New York Times op-ed in 2018 under the
pen-name "Anonymous" that was entitled, "I Am Part of the
Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" that drew
widespread attention for its criticism of Trump. Several
months after quitting the administration, again under the pen
name "Anonymous," he published a book in November 2019
entitled, A Warning. In October 2020, he revealed that he was
"Anonymous" while campaigning against Trump's reelection.
He was the first former Trump administration official to
endorse Joe Biden and launched a group of ex-officials to
oppose Trump's re-election.

Taylor is a regular commentator in the news media on

national security and public policy, a best-selling author,
university lecturer, and founder of several civic groups.

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 Ciaran Martin is Professor of Practice in the
Management of Public Organisations.

Prior to joining the School, Ciaran was the

founding Chief Executive of the National
Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ.

Ciaran led a fundamental shift in the UK’s

approach to cyber security in the second half of the last
decade. He successfully advocated for a wholesale change
of approach towards a more interventionist posture and this
was adopted by the Government in the 2015 National
Security Strategy, leading to the creation of the NCSC in
2016 under his leadership.

In his 23-year career in the UK civil service, Ciaran held

senior roles within the Cabinet Office, including Constitution
Director (2011-2014), which included negotiating the basis of
the Scottish Referendum with the Scottish Government and
spearheading the equalising of the Royal Succession laws
between males and females in the line; and director of
Security and Intelligence at the Cabinet Office (2008-2011).
Between 2002 and 2008 he was Principal Private Secretary
to the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service and
Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary to HM
Treasury.

Adam Segal the Ira A. Lipman chair in

emerging technologies and national security
and director of the Digital and Cyberspace
Policy program at the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) (on leave). An expert on
security issues, technology development,
and Chinese domestic and foreign policy,
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Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored
Independent Task Force reports Innovation and National
Security: Keeping Our Edge and Defending an Open, Global,
Secure, and Resilient Internet. His book The Hacked World
Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate
in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016) describes the
increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work
has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York
Times, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign
Affairs, among others. He currently writes for the blog, “Net
Politics.”

02 Op-Eds

ECCRI fellows will write a 1000-word Op-Ed on a European

cybersecurity topic of their choosing to be published by
ECCRI’s forthcoming media spin-off Binding Hook in late
2023 or early 2024. The Op-Ed writing process will be
coached by fellowship programme leaders and the Editors of
Binding Hook - Taylor Grossmann, Katerina Fytatzi and
Alexander Bollfrass - in three sessions scheduled for
Fall/Winter 2022.

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 Katerina Fytatzi is an Editor at Binding Hook,
a forthcoming media-spinoff of ECCRI. Prior to
joining Binding Hook, she worked at Oxford
Analytica for over a decade, covering
international issues, including cybersecurity,
the geopolitics of cyber conflict, and
disinformation. She managed Oxford
Analytica’s Global Risk Monitor, which tracks
the main global macroeconomic and geopolitical risks in the
year ahead, and researched global security issues for a
consultancy. She holds an M.A. in International Relations
from King’s College London and a B.A. in International
Relations from Boston University.

Taylor Grossman is an Editor at Binding

Hook, a forthcoming media-spinoff of
ECCRI. Taylor is also a Senior Researcher
in the Cyberdefence Project with the Risk
and Resilience Team at the Center for
Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. Prior
to joining CSS, Taylor was a Senior
Research Analyst and Project Manager in
the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in Washington, D.C., where her work
focused on capacity-building and financial inclusion. She has
also held roles in research at the Hoover Institution and in
consulting at a small firm in Silicon Valley. Her other research
interests include cyber norm development, ethics of war, and
bureaucratic politics in national security decision making. She
holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University
of Oxford and a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford
University.

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 Alexander K. Bollfrass is an Editor at
Binding Hook, a forthcoming media-spinoff
of ECCRI. Alex is also a Senior Researcher
at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at
ETH Zurich. He was previously a Stanton
nuclear security postdoctoral fellow with the
Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center
and a wargame designer at the Harvard
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Alex was a
nuclear weapons policy researcher at the Washington-based
Arms Control Association and Stimson Center before earning
a Ph.D. in security studies from Princeton University’s School
of Public and International Affairs. His academic writing
centers on the role of intelligence services in nuclear politics
and the verification of nuclear treaties. Alex has written in the
Washington Post, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Arms
Control Today, Survival, Foreign Affairs, and others on the
policy implications of his research.

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03 Mandiant Threat
Intelligence Training
ECCRI fellows will be given threat intelligence training by
ECCRI Fellowship’s institutional partner Mandiant.

Mandiant is recognized by enterprises, governments, and law

enforcement agencies worldwide as the market leader in
threat intelligence and expertise gained on the frontlines of
cyber security. Mandiant scales its intelligence and expertise
through the Mandiant Advantage SaaS platform to deliver
current intelligence, automation of alert investigation and
prioritization and validation of security controls products from
a variety of vendors.

Jamie Collier is a senior Threat Intelligence

advisor at Mandiant. He was previously the
Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead at
Digital Shadows and has completed a PhD
in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford
where he remains active as a research
affiliate with the Centre for Technology and
Global Affairs. Jamie was previously based
at MIT as a Cyber Security Fulbright Scholar and has

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experience working with the NATO Cooperative Cyber
Defence Centre of Excellence, Oxford Analytica, and PwC
India.

Jens Christian Høy Monrad is a director

and EMEA head of Threat Intelligence at
Mandiant. Previously, Jens has worked as a
senior principal analyst and intelligence lead
where he has counselled some of the
world’s largest companies, including
financial, government, defence, and
intelligence organizations. His team provides
threat analysis and briefings based on the latest threat
intelligence to help organizations understand the risks they
face in the cyber domain. His team scope includes attacks
and threats against both public and private sectors by
cybercriminal groups, state-linked actors, as well as
hacktivists.

Jens sits on the security council for the Danish ICT Industry
Association that represents more than 800 ICT companies
and several sub-industry groups focusing on cyber
espionage, cybercrime, information sharing and emerging
threats.

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04 Conferences

ECCRI fellows can participate in several high-profile

conferences in 2023-2024.

Select group of fellows have the opportunity to attend IGF

Forum in Kyoto, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign and
European Affairs of Malta.

05 Fellowship Book Club

ECCRI fellows jointly selected “Chip War: The Fight for the
World’s Most Critical Technology” by Chris Miller (published in
2022) to be the focus book in Fall 2023. The fellows will read
and discuss the selected book in the Fellowship Book Club.

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06 Brussels Field Trip

ECCRI will organise a two-day field trip to Brussels in Fall

2023. The field trip includes visits to the European External
Action Service, European Commission, and NATO. The
second day of the field trip will be filled with fellows-only
working sessions held at the Microsoft offices in Brussels.

07 Lunches

During the 2023-2024 fellowship, ECCRI management will

organise a number of lunches for fellows to interact with
cybersecurity policy experts. Lunches will be scheduled at
short-term notice and according to guests’ and fellows’
availability.

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08 Grants

ECCRI fellows have the opportunity to apply for travel and

event grants during 2023-2024. All applications need to be
submitted to fellowship management by email.

Fellowship Alumni

2022-2023 fellows:

Alexander Martin Jiro Minier

Alexandra Paulus Julien Strandt
Andrzej Kozłowski Natalia Kadenko
Arthur Laudrain Nikolas Ott
Ayhan Gücüyener Evren Saher Naumaan
Cedric Amon Simona Autolitano
Jakob Bund Triantafyllos Kouloufakos

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Fellowship Management

F ello wship Pr og r amme Leads

Max Smeets is a senior researcher at the

Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH
Zurich. He is also an Affiliate at Stanford
University Center for International Security
and Cooperation and Research Associate at
the Centre for Technology and Global
Affairs, University of Oxford. Max was
previously a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer
at Stanford University CISAC and a College
Lecturer at Keble College, University of Oxford. He has also
held research and fellowship positions at New America,
Columbia University SIPA, Sciences Po CERI, and NATO
CCD COE. Before his academic career, Max worked in
finance in London and Amsterdam.

Patryk Pawlak is the fellowship co-lead. He

is also a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe.
His fields of expertise are global governance
of cyberspace, the impact of technology on
foreign and security policy, and the EU’s
cyber and digital diplomacy. Pawlak
previously worked for the EU Institute for
Security Studies where he headed the
Brussels office and coordinated all cyber and
digital activities. Until December 2022, Pawlak was the
project director of EU Cyber Direct, an EU-funded initiative to
support the bloc’s engagement on cyber diplomacy and
digital policies worldwide. In this capacity, he ideated and
coordinated the European Cyber Diplomacy Dialogue with the
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School of Transnational Governance in Florence, bringing
together senior government officials and scholars. He was
also co-editor of the “Directions Blog” on cyber, digital, and
tech issues.

F ello wship Pr og r amme Suppor t

Anni Adamson is the Administrative

Officer at ECCRI. She further serves as the
Day-to-Day Manager of the Estonian band
Trad.Attack!, coordinates events at the
Treski Music and Inspiration Centre, and
participates in various other projects in the
Estonian cultural sphere. Anni has
extensive and diverse experience in project
management and related activities, which contribute to the
success of projects of any size and reach. In her previous
positions, Anni dedicated her time to marketing and social
media management, being the Marketing Manager at
Estonia’s leading Postimees Media House and Head of
Marketing at Postimees Publishing House. Anni holds a
degree in psychology and communication from University of
Tartu, Estonia

F ello wship Institutional P ar tner s

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About ECCRI

The European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI)

promotes the interdisciplinary study of cyber conflict and
statecraft in Europe and beyond. ECCRI exists to make
rigorous, objective research on cyber conflict and statecraft
accessible to policy-makers and the general public.

ECCRI encourages and supports high-quality original

research, as well as enabling researchers to communicate
their findings to policy-makers and the general public.

ECCRI is a UK Charitable Incorporated Organization.

ECCRI’s Registered Charity Number is 1190782.

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