Selected Invited Event Participation

• Studying Military Transformation Amid Ongoing Technological Uncertainty workshop. Swedish Defence University (2025)
• Lasting Dilemmas: AI, Warfare, and the Future of Interdisciplinary Inquiry workshop. T.M.C. Asser Institute (2025)
• Transatlantic Turbulence: What Next For European Defence? Grand Strategy workshop. University of Birmingham (2025)
• Climate Change, Low-Carbon Warfare and the Shape of War workshop. Loughborough University (2025)
• P5 Experts’ Roundtable on AI-NC3 co-hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Strategic Foresight Group in Geneva (2024)
• Responsible Human-Machine Across the AI Lifecycle: An Interactive Scenario breakout session at the 2024 REAIM SUMMIT (2024)
• AI, Geopolitics and the Need for a New Analytical Framework? Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Roundtable (2023)

Selected Invited Talks

• “Swarming, AI, and Autonomy Panel Roundtable.” Loitering Munitions Conference. SAE Media Group (2025)
• “AI and Global Security.” Third Doctoral Summer School in Data Science, Accounting and Management on Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Perspectives, and Risks in Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (2025)
• “More than Killer Robots? Sociotechnical Imaginaries, AI Narratives, and The Terminator Franchise.” MA module AI in World Politics, University of Southern Denmark (2025)
• “US presidential election Q&A session.” Department of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London (2024)
• “Artificial Intelligence and Great Power Competition – The Offset-X Strategy, the Replicator Initiative, and Beyond.” AI Lund, Lund University (2024)
• “Loitering Munitions and Great Power Competition.” Travelling Technologies: Repertoires of AI Innovation, Experimentation and Deployment Across Policing and Warfare Operations. Contesting Governance Symposium, Utrecht University (2023)
• “The Past, Present, and Future of Remote Warfare Scholarship.” School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature, University of Portsmouth (2022)

Invited Professional Development Talks

• “Fellowships and Post-Docs.” PhD Professional Development and Research Seminar, Royal Holloway, University of London (2025)
• “Planning Ahead for Post-Doc Opportunities and Teaching Fellowships”. BISA Postgraduate and ECR Conference, University of Portsmouth (2019)

Expert Advising

• Expert Contributor to United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Humanitarian Law (2025)
• Research member on the AutoPractices: Enhancing Human Agency in Military AI Governance Project (2024-2025)

Media Engagement

• I have experience talking to journalists at the New York Times, Forbes, and Nature about my research on military applications of AI.
• I am happy to receive further media requests.

Selected Conference/Workshop/Roundtable Organisation

• “Science Fiction, Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Future War – New Avenues for IR Research?” roundtable (with D. Depledge). BISA Annual Conference (2025)
• Imagining Future War: New Perspectives on Military Technology in an Era of Great Power Competition workshop (with Daniel Møller Ølgaard). 11^th European Workshops in International Studies, European International Studies Association (2024)
• Conceptualizing Remote Warfare, the Past, Present, and Future conference (with Rubrick Biegon and The Oxford Research Group). University of Kent (2019)
• “The PhD and Beyond”, Postgraduate Colloquium. British International Studies Association, Birmingham (2017)

Photo from the “Imagining Future War: New Perspectives on Military Technology in an Era of Great Power Competition” workshop, held in Istanbul during July 2024.