Isabella Brunner

Postdoctoral researcher

Isabella Brunner is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Isabella Brunner is currently completing her PhD in public international law at University of Vienna, where her thesis focuses on the law of state responsibility and evidentiary standards for attributing cyber operations. With a background as a legal officer at the Austrian Foreign Ministry, she has been consulting the Ministry on legal issues with respect to cyber activities over the years. Amongst other things, she has participated as a legal adviser for the Austrian delegation both at the OEWG 2019-2021 and OEWG 2021-2025. Most recently, she assisted in drafting the Austrian position on international law applicable to cyber operations, which will soon be published. Isabella’s academic journey includes researcher and lecturer roles in public international law at the University of Vienna and Bundeswehr University Munich. She also worked for the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime at UNODC as a JPO and last year received a Fulbright grant to study at NYU School of Law.

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Meet the team

Dennis Broeders

Dennis Broeders is Full Professor of Global Security and Technology and Senior Fellow of The Hague Program International Cyber Security at Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University.

Senior Fellow

Bibi van den Berg

Bibi van den Berg is Full Professor of Cybersecurity Governance within the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

Professor Cybersecurity Governance

Els de Busser

Dr. Els De Busser is Assistant Professor Cyber Security Governance at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and Principal Investigator of the Cyber Security by Integrated Design (C-SIDe) project, both at Leiden University.

Assistant Professor

Arun Sukumar

Arun Sukumar is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Assistant Professor

Isabella Brunner

Isabella Brunner is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Postdoctoral researcher

Lise Andersen

Lise Andersen is a postdoctoral researcher in the EU Cyber Direct program, based at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Associate Fellow

Rogier Creemers

Rogier Creemers is an Assistant Professor in the Law and Governance of China at Leiden University.

Associate Fellow

Cristina Del Real

Cristina Del Real is an Assistant Professor in Cyber Crisis at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University.

Associate Fellow

Fan Yang

Fan Yang is an Assistant Professor of International Law in Law School of Xiamen University

Visiting Associate Fellow (2023-2024)

Monica Kello

Monica Kello is a Lecturer in War Studies (Cyber Security) at King's College London.

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Tatiana Tropina

Tatiana Tropina is an Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Associate Fellow

Sophie Vériter

Sophie Vériter is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University.

Associate Fellow

Jelena Vicic

Jelena Vicic is an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Associate Fellow

Sergei Boeke

Sergei Boeke is a Non-Resident Associate Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Enrico Calandro

Dr Enrico Calandro is the Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town and a Senior Research Associate at Research ICT Africa.

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Fabio Cristiano

Fabio Cristiano is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University.

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

François Delerue

François Delerue is an Assistant Professor of Law at IE University.

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Bart Hogeveen

Bart Hogeveen is Head of Cyber Capacity Building at the International Cyber Policy Centre of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

James Shires

James Shires is an Senior Research Fellow in Cyber Policy at Chatham House.

Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Corianne Oosterbaan

Corianne Oosterbaan works as a Program Assistant for the The Hague Program on International Cyber Security.

Program Assistant