Alexander Kamprad is an Associate with the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) and will be a postdoctoral research fellow with MTA and the International Security Program in the spring of 2021. Alexander is a political scientist (BA, University of Hagen) and criminologist (MA, University of Hamburg; PhD, Catholic University of Milan). He conducted violence-related research in Mexico and worked at the European External Action Service before joining the Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime (Milan) in 2014. Following a visiting research affiliation at the European University in St. Petersburg, and consultancy work for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Research Branch, he took a position at the German Federal Foreign Office’s Nuclear Arms Control Division in 2019. His main research interests include nuclear crimes and terrorism (within a wider context of crime, terrorism and violence); international nuclear security cooperation; nuclear arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation (esp. in Eastern Asia); and peaceful uses of nuclear technology, among other topics.