Emerging Scholar
Balthazar Stengelin is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Montreal and a research assistant at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP). His research focuses on Canada's place in the Arctic defense architecture, relations with Russia in the context of the region's growing militarization, and the vectors and narratives of Russian propaganda. He is particularly interested in the evolution of international cooperation in the Arctic and the narratives that Russian state media construct around tensions in the region. He holds a master's degree in European, Russian, and Eurasian studies from Carleton University, has also studied at McGill…
Emerging Scholar
Katerina Sviderska is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). A Gates Cambridge Scholar, she focuses on European politics and the study of nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. She teaches at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and the Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine). Her master’s thesis at the University of Montreal (winner of the Jenson-Pétry Prize from the Quebec Political Science Association) focused on Russian historical myths concerning Ukraine, while her broader research explores European integration, nation-building, and identity politics. As an associate member of the Chair in…
Practitioner
Thierry Tardy is Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Previously he held senior research and management positions at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. His fields of expertise include NATO’s policy and adaptation, the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), NATO-EU relations, the politics of crisis management, UN peace operations, and French security and defense policy. He has published six books and more than 100 articles or book chapters. His most recent book is…
Emerging Scholar
Ludwine Tchatat currently works as a scientific advisor at the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP). She holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree with honours in political science from the Université de Montréal. She conducted research for her dissertation on the impact of rebel victories in civil conflicts on the improvement of socio-economic conditions of the population. Her work was supervised by Professor Théodore Mclauchlin with whom she also worked as a research assistant on projects related to military training and capacity building.
Emerging Scholars
Benjamin Toubol is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval. His thesis focuses on the fragmentation and hybrid governance of armed groups in political competition in Northern Iraq. More specifically, his research focuses on the influence of non-state groups in Iraqi Kurdistan and their legitimacy in delegating violence to the population. Holder of a master's degree from the Institut Français de Géopolitique, he conducted several research fields in Iraq between 2017 and 2023. With a degree in literary Arabic studies, he has lived in Tunisia and several Middle Eastern countries. He has also worked for…
Emerging Scholar
Vincent Tourret is a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Justin Massie at the Department of Political Science of the University of Quebec in Montreal. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Paris II Assas and in History from the University of Paris IV. He was a research fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique from 2018 to 2022, where he remains a research associate. His work has focused on the "techno-operational" analysis of armed conflicts, which consists in assessing the impact of doctrinal and capability innovations on military apparatuses, at the level…
Emerging Scholars
Jacob Tuckey is an early-career policy professional with a focus on industrial strategy and defence. He completed his master’s degree at the University of Waterloo’s Balsillie School under the supervision of Alexander Lanoszka. His research focused on how NATO member states on the eastern flank developed their defence industries in response to two major flashpoints in the Russo-Ukrainian War. In addition to his work with the Network, Jacob has served as a Balsillie Graduate Fellow studying economic resilience, as well as a research lead for a policy task force at the NATO Association of Canada. His work experience, spanning…
Emerging Scholar
Karine Turcotte is a doctoral student in international studies at Laval University, co-supervised by Professors Frédéric Lasserre and Justin Massie. She holds a master’s degree in international studies, with a concentration in international development. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence as an instrument of sovereignty in the Canadian Arctic. More specifically, she studies the integration of AI into surveillance, intelligence, threat detection, decision-making, and interception systems in Canada, the United States, and the Scandinavian NATO member countries. Her approach draws on the fields of strategic studies, military innovation, and AI governance to analyze the transformations in…
Emerging Scholar
Gabriel Turmel is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is particularly interested in security policies and planification. His research focuses on the adoption of different forms of capability-based planning (CBP) in the security and defence infrastructure of Western states, particularly in the United States and France. He currently works as a senior advisor in the Government of Canada’s national security and emergency management community, as well as in military intelligence and human resources within the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2023 and 2024 respectively, he also received the…
Researcher
Dr. Sash Vaid is a tenured Associate Professor of Marketing at the DeGroote School of Business and an Affiliate Faculty with the School of Computational Science and Engineering at McMaster University. He is also a Research Affiliate at the University of Michigan. Dr. Vaid has extensive expertise in econometrics and quantitative marketing of ubiquitous industrial and cyber technologies, many with dual-use applications. Dr. Vaid is currently leveraging LLMs and field experiments to investigate ways to quantify cyber-driven consumption by exploring agentic software engineering and development across a mix of general-purpose and functional/scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, Java, C++, CSS, and R,…
