Dominika Kunertova

Dominika Kunertova is a 2025–2026 Research Fellow with the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has over a decade of academic, think tank, and international organization experience. Her published research addresses how technology impacts the character of warfare, transatlantic burden sharing, and the evolving European security architecture. NATO’s Science for Peace and Security, and Chief Scientist Grants, programs have supported her work on military uncrewed systems and artificial intelligence.

At Harvard, Dr. Kunertova researches the structuring effects of emerging and disruptive technologies on international security. She investigates how various actors use technology hype as a deliberate foreign policy strategy in the context of great power competition.

Dr. Kunertova is a Senior Fellow (nonresident) at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and an Affiliate Researcher at Charles University’s Peace Research Center Prague. Her past positions include: Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies of ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Center for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark; and international staffer at NATO.

Her research is published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Contemporary Security Policy, Defence Studies, European Security, Military Review, the Naval War College Review, and more. Her commentary has appeared in outlets including Le Rubicon, RUSI Newsbrief, The Conversation, and War on the Rocks. 

Dr. Kunertova holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Montreal, an M.A. in International Relations from Charles University in Prague, and a B.A. in Political Science from Comenius University in Bratislava.