Katarzyna Zysk

Katarzyna Zysk is Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS, since 2007), which is part of the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) in Oslo. 

She has over two decades of experience in international security, defence, and strategic studies. Following her 2006 PhD thesis on NATO enlargement to Eastern Europe, her research has focused on Russian military strategy, doctrines, warfare, strategic and nuclear deterrence, naval strategy, security in the Arctic, as well as AI and disruptive technologies in defence innovation.  

At the IFS, Prof. Zysk has also served as Deputy Director, Head of Centre for Security Policy, and Director of Research, and she was Acting Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College, where she teaches regularly.

She was Visiting Professor the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, at the Changing Character of War Centre (CCW) at the University of Oxford, at Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College, and at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). She is Core Group Member of the Russia Transatlantic Forum at the Center for a New American Security, a Member of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, and Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the Unites States.

Katarzyna’s insights have reached broad audiences through both an extensive academic publication portfolio and major national and global media channels.