Dr. Raluca Csernatoni is fellow at Carnegie Europe, working on European security and defence, with a focus on emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) like Artificial Intelligence (AI). At Carnegie Europe, she is also a team leader and senior policy expert on new technologies for the EU-funded project, ‘EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative - EU Cyber Direct (EUCD)’ and leads Carnegie Europe’s research project on ‘The EU’s Techno-Politics of AI’ funded by the McGovern AI Grant.

Csernatoni is currently a professor on European Security and Defence with the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) and its Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. At the CSDS, she is a senior research expert on digital technologies in the context of the EU-funded project, ‘Indo-Pacific-European Hub for Digital Partnerships: Trusted Digital Technologies for Sustainable Well-Being’ (INPACE). She also co-leads the Flemish Research Council (FWO) Research Network on ‘Technology, Security and Conflict’ (2024 -2029).

Since 2022, Csernatoni has been invited to join as a visiting faculty on European security, new technologies, and high-tech warfare, at the Department of International Relations of Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria. She is also a co-leader of the ‘Governance of Emerging Technology’ Research Group with the Centre on Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, Canada.

Previously, Csernatoni was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer with the Department of International Relations of the Institute of Political Studies (IPS) at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. Csernatoni holds a PhD and master’s degree in international relations from Central European University. She has conducted research on the EU’s security, defence, and technology policies at the Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), at the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defence’ (RHID) and its Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS), and at the International Security Information Service - Europe in Brussels. She was also a research fellow with the Study Program on European Security (SPES) at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin, Germany.

Her published work appeared in academic journals such as Geopolitics, European Foreign Affairs Review, European Security, Critical Military Studies, Global Affairs, and European View. Her co-edited book, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes, was published with the Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology Series in 2020. She has authored numerous book chapters, policy analysis articles, long reports, op-eds, and commentary pieces on the EU’s defence, technological, digital, and cyber initiatives, as well as the innovation and governance of EDTs such as AI.