Bio
Ingvild Bode is professor of international relations at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She is also director of the Center for War Studies at SDU. Her research focuses on processes of normative change, especially with regard to the use of force. She is the principal investigator of three externally funded research projects: AutoNorms: Weaponised Artificial Intelligence, Norms, and Order (funded by the European Research Council); the AutoPractices project on sustaining and strengthening human agency in military decision-making processes involving AI technologies (funded by the European Research Council); and Human-Machine Interaction: The Distributed Agency of Humans and Machines in Military AI (HuMach, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark). Further, Ingvild served as the co-chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association Research Group on Issues of AI and Autonomy for Defence Systems. She is also an expert member of the Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain. Her work has been published in various international journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Ethics and Information Technology, Review of International Studies andInternational Studies Review. Ingvild’s mostrecent book, Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms (co-authored with Hendrik Huelss), was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2022. Previously, Ingvild was senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury (2015–2020) and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science international research fellow with joined affiliation at United Nations University and the University of Tokyo (2013–2015).