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,…
Emerging Scholar
Louis-Charles is currently preparing his doctoral research where he will be exploring the impact of generative artificial intelligence on the manufacturing of political violence in radicalised groups. This research is building on his interest in contentious politics which was at the heart of his MA thesis.
Emerging Scholars
Stéphanie Veillette is in her final year of a Master's degree in International Studies, majoring in International Security, at Université Laval. Her research interests focus mainly on security and defence issues in the Euro-Atlantic region; her final MA essay examined Germany's defence policies and recent military investments following the conflict in Ukraine. She also has a particular interest in NATO and military coalitions. Over the past year, she has had the opportunity to research these two topics in support of subsequent publications.
Researcher
Magali Vullierme, PhD in political science, is a post-doctoral researcher in the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN, Trent University). She is also an associate researcher at the Observatory for Arctic Policy and Security (OPSA, University of Ottawa), at CEARC (Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ) and at the Observatoire de l'Arctique (directed by the Fondation for Strategic Research on behalf of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, France). Finally, she is a member of the Arctic GDR (CNRS, France). Her research aims to understand better the interrelationships between, on the one hand, the indigenous and local populations of the…
Emerging Scholar
Jana Walkowski (she/her) is a doctoral student in the department of Political Studies at Queen’s University working under the supervision of Dr. Susanne Soederberg. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science with a specialization in Development Studies from McGill University and a bachelor’s degree in Global Development Studies from Queen’s University. Her master’s thesis at McGill explored the trend in EU policy making to merge its migration governance with its development governance through an empirical study of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa Instrument. This project was funded by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship and a 2021…
Emerging Scholar
Eric Whitworth is an upcoming graduate student who recently graduated from Bishop’s University with an honours bachelor’s degree, majoring in International Relations and a minor in History. Eric also holds a graduate certificate in Knowledge Mobilization. After graduating from Bishop’s University, he worked for an NGO in Israel researching different issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Under the direction of Dr. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Eric is currently part of a research project investigating issues related to UN peacekeeping-intelligence. Eric research interest focuses on conflict negotiations, conflict resolution and the spheres of power in the MENA region. Eric is fluent in English…
Practitioner
Artur is a retired senior executive from the Canadian public service. With more than three decades of experience, he has expertise in foreign policy, intelligence, security, and defence issues. He served as a champion of equity, diversity and inclusion with roles supporting 2SLGBTQ+ persons, combatting antisemitism and other forms of racism and discrimination. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, a Senior Strategy Advisor with Samuel Associates, and a member of the Board of the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship. Artur worked in a strategic capacity since 1997…
