GC REAIM Expert
Dr Ingvild Bode is Professor of International Politics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She is also Director of the Center for War Studies at SDU. Her research focuses on processes of normative change, especially with regard to the use of force. She leads three externally-funded research projects as Principal Investigator: (1) the European Research Council-funded AutoNorms project on autonomous weapons systems and international norms; (2) the European Research Council-funded AutoPractices project on sustaining and strengthening human agency in military decision-making processes involving AI technologies; and (3) HuMach, a DFF-funded Sapere Aude project investigating human-machine interaction and the exercise of human agency in the military domain.
Previously, Ingvild has served as the co-chair of the IEEE Research Group on AI and Autonomy for Defence Systems. Her work has been published in various international journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Ethics and Information Technology, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review. Ingvild’s most recent book entitled Autonomous Weapons and International Norms (co-authored with Hendrik Huelss) was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2022. Previously, Ingvild was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury (2015-2020) and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellow with joined affiliation at United Nations University and the University of Tokyo (2013-2015).
