Jonathan Luke Austin is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen. He is also Director of the Future of Advanced Security and Technology Research Hub (FASTER), and Principal Investigator for the Future of Humanitarian Design (HUD) research collective. Austin’s research is transdisciplinary, cutting across (international) political sociology, science and technology studies, international relations, political science, and beyond. Currently, his research is orientated around four main axes: 1) the study of global political violence, 2) the material-aesthetic design of emerging digital, computational, and architectural technologies, 3) the state of critique in social science, and 4) applying social science to problems in global public policy, particularly humanitarianism and its politics. Austin also has 15 years of research and field experience in the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine). He regularly consults for Governments, International Organizations, non-governmental organizations and the media on current events.
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