Bruno Oliveira Martins

Research Interests

My main research interests lie on the intersection between technological developments, security practices, and societal change. In 2022 / 2023 I work on different projects on emerging security technologies. These include RegulAir (a large, multi-annual research project on the integration of drones in the civilian airspace, that I lead), TRANSCEND (a Horizon Europe project dealing with societal impacts of EU security research, where I am WP leader), and Disruptive Security Technologies: Challenges to Norway’s Total Defence Concept (dealing with with how new technologies generate vulnerabilities and pose challenges to the total defence concept, a project that I lead).

I am interested in several issues within the wider security studies agenda, and I've researched, taught and published on EU's security and defence policies, including counter-terrorism, EU-Israel-Palestine relations, and the politics of security and defence research and innovation. 

Background

​I am a senior researcher at PRIO, where I am coordinator of the Security Research Group and a member of the Law & Ethics Research Group, the PRIO Middle East Centre, and the PRIO Migration Centre.

Professional background:

• 2017-19: Postdoctoral Fellow, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University
  
• 2017: Guest researcher, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
  
• 2013-2016: Postdoc / Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
  
• 2013-14: External Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark
  
• 2010-14: Researcher, University of Minho, Project Strategic Partnerships in EU's Foreign Policy
  
• 2011: Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
  
• 2010: Visiting Fellow, Egmont Institute, Brussels
  
• 2008: Political Analyst, Delegation of the European Commission in Israel.
  
• 2008: EuroMeSCo Exchange Researcher, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Research Project Undocumented Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Israel
  
• 2006-08: Researcher, Institute for Strategic and international Studies (IEEI), Lisbon
  

Education

• 2014: PhD in Political Science, University of Minho, Portugal.
  
• 2008: MA in European Studies, University of Minho, Portugal
  
• 2003: Licenciatura (5 year graduation) in Law, Portuguese Catholic University.
  

Languages

• Fluent: Portuguese (mother tongue), English, Spanish
  
• Intermediate: Norwegian, Italian
  
• Basic: Danish, French 

PRIO Projects

• Reacting to COVID-19 Across the MENA Region
• Yemen in Context: New Insights into the Humanitarian-Security-Development Nexus in the broader Middle East (project leader)

Events

• Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:30-09:30 – Turkish Drones as a Foreign Policy Tool - MidEast Breakfast Seminar
• Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:00-15:15 – Yemen in Context: Past, Present and Future
• Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:00-16:00 – Assisting and Protecting Refugees in Europe and the Middle East - Politics, Law, and Humanitarian Practices
• Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:15-09:30 – The War in Yemen – Humanitarian, Geo-Political, and Security Dimensions

Publications

The following publications are specific to the PRIO Middle East Centre. A more complete list is available at www.prio.org.

All Publications