Jasper Götting is a research fellow in the biosecurity team of Convergent Research. His work focusses on roadmapping technical biosecurity interventions, with a current focus on far-UVC air disinfection against future pandemics. He previously completed his PhD in virology at the Hannover...
Dr Emil Nafis Iftekhar is a Researcher at Robert Koch Institute and WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Previously, he worked as a Political Affairs Intern at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Implementation Support Unit of the Biological Weapons Convention...
Holger Fabian Sahl serves as strategic analyst at the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), headquartered in Warsaw. At Frontex, he provides the strategic picture of the EU external borders to decision-makers and is lead author of the Frontex Risk Analysis Unit’s flagship...
Maren Vieluf is a Desk Officer in the German Federal Foreign Office in the Division on International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science of the University of Innsbruck. Her...
Betty Suh is Research Fellow at the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP) as well as PhD fellow at the Institute for Peace Studies and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH). Her dissertation discusses North Korea’s nuclear signaling vis-à-vis the US; her work includes...
Michael Biontino is a retired German diplomat and arms control and disarmament expert, most recently holding the position of the Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and Ambassador for Global Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs. Ambassador Biontino led negotiations...