Dr Fabio Cristiano is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University. His research examines the international politics of cybersecurity and emerging technologies, with particular attention to how infrastructures of connectivity and control shape conflict and its informational dimensions. More broadly, his work engages socio-technical questions of violence, sovereignty, and territoriality as they are reconfigured by digital technologies. 

Before joining Utrecht University in 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs and previously taught in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, where he also earned a PhD in Political Science with a dissertation on the politics of cyber conflict and surveillance technologies in Palestine.  

He is an Associate Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cybersecurity and an active core group member of the Contesting Governance platform at Utrecht University, where he established the Palestine Lab. He is the Academic Advisor for the NGO 7amleh - The Arab Centre for the Advancement of Social Media.

His recent publications include the volumes Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace (2023) and Hybridity, Conflict, and the Global Politics of Cybersecurity (2024). 

He convenes courses for the MA in Conflict Studies and Human Rights and the Minor Conflict Studies, which he coordinates. 

Currently: Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York under the Queen Wilhelmina Chair programme.

List of publications: Google Scholar