Dr. Gabriella Gricius is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz and a Fellow and the Media Coordinator with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). She is also a Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute. At the University of Konstanz, she is currently working on a project covering Nordic security community formation and the conceptualization and coordination of responses to hybrid threats to critical infrastructure in the European Arctic region.
She received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University’s Political Science Department where her dissertation explored the prevalence of low-tension discourse in Greenland, Svalbard, the Northern Sea Route, and the Northwest Passage. Her research interests broadly cover international relations, Arctic security, the potential for desecuritization during great power competition, and the role of experts in security decision-making processes.
Outside of academia, she also works with the European Leadership Network (ELN) on research on hybrid threats and is a Fellow with the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN). She was recently a participant with the Manfred Wörner Seminar, the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative, a Summer Associate with the RAND Corporation, and has consulted with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She continues to act as an Adjunct Lecturer at Colorado State University and recently co-organized a specialized workshop at the University of Bielefeld on German Polar Arctic expertise and actively moderates and presents at conferences across Europe.
Her writing is published in Foreign Policy, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Politics, European Security, Global Studies Quarterly, among other outlets. Previously she was a Guest Researcher at both the University of Copenhagen and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, a Fellow with Bridging the Gap, a Junior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a Senior Research Associate at the Public International Law and Policy Group’s Netherlands Office, and worked with the International Criminal Court and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. She received her BA from Boston University and MA from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
