Dr. Tobias Burgers’ primary research interests focus on emerging technologies and their (political) impact on international conflict and security, the governance of (new and emerging) technologies, and international security relations in the Indo-Pacific. He received his doctorate in political science from the Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin. His doctoral research examined how cyber and robotic technologies change the (political) nature of international conflict and war, focusing on the United Nations peace operations. During his doctoral studies, he worked for the Berlin N.G.O. Crisis Simulation for Peace, developing conflict simulation scenarios.
Following his doctorate, he was a Taiwan Fellow at the National Chengchi University and a Canon Foundation fellow at the Cyber Civilization Research Center, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, where he researched the governance of technologies in the Asia Pacific, as well as the impact of cyber and robotic technologies on security dynamics in the region. Most recently, he was a project assistant professor at the Cyber Civilization Research Center, where he taught on these subjects and ran a region-wide research project understanding the societal impact of cyber conflict and its impact on conventional security relations.
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