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 

Research Groups

• Migration
• Security
• Law and Ethics

PRIO Departments

• Dimensions of Security

• Dimensions of Security (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

• Autonomy Framework for Safe and Secure Integration of Civillian Drones in European Airspace
• Peace, Security and Global Digital Politics: ePOLITICS Initiative
• Reacting to COVID-19 Across the MENA Region
• RegulAIR: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces (project leader)

• Controlling Migrant Bodies. A study of biometric technology and the process of making the body readable in migration control
• Counter-Drone Systems: Implications for Norway in an EU and NATO context (project leader)
• Critical Perspectives on Digital Peacebuilding
• Disruptive Security Technologies: Challenges to Norway’s Total Defence Concept (project leader)
• Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (DRIVER+)
• Fact-Finding Study Preparing a “Drone Strategy 2.0” (project leader)
• Global Security Technology Laboratories (GeSTaLT)
• INTERSECT: Technology-Security-Society interplays in Europe (project leader)
• Nordic Centre of Excellence for Security Technologies and Societal Values (NordSTEVA)
• Privacy, Ethical, Regulatory and Social No-gate Crossing Point Solutions Acceptance (PERSONA)
• States of Emergency as Disruptive Pandemic Politics (project leader)
• Study of different metropolitan approaches in countering the threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
• Transnational Academic Network for the Study of Drones (TRANSAD) (project leader)
• 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
• Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:30-10:00 – Breakfast seminar: Drones over Norway: Opportunities, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
• 24 - 25 Nov 2022 – Drones in Civilian Airspaces: Security, Regulation, and Imagination
• Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:00-15:00 – Biometric Borders, Body Politics and Digital Governance
• Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:00-20:00 – Forces for Good and Bad: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Humankind
• Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:00-17:00 – European Governance of Emerging Technologies: Concepts, Challenges and Practices
• Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:30-11:00 – Drones, Robotics, and New Military Technologies: Debating the Norwegian Position
• Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:30-16:00 – Drones, inteligência artificial e as novas tecnologias militares: contributos para uma posição portuguesa
• Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:15-16:15 – Tech-Based States of Emergency: Public Responses and Societal implications
• Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:30-10:00 – Countering the Drone Threat: C-UAS technology and implications for Norway in an EU and NATO context
• 06 - 07 Feb 2020 – The Future of EU Security: issues, concepts and approaches
• 21 - 22 Nov 2019 – Emerging Technologies and International Security in the Mediterranean Region
• 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
• Fri, 24 May 2019 – Technology, Security and Warfare
• Tue, 07 May 2019 12:00-14:00 – EU Defence: recent developments and future trends
• Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:15-09:30 – The War in Yemen – Humanitarian, Geo-Political, and Security Dimensions
• Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:15-14:00 – Security Technology Laboratories: The Global Circulation of Security Practices
• Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:00-16:00 – Drone Proliferation and Use in Africa: Security risks and strategic considerations
• Thu, 30 August 2018 – Meeting of the TRANSAD Core Network
• Mon, 27 August 2018 – Culture and Violent Conflict

Publications

​In this link you may find a complete list of my pre-PRIO work (books, peer-reviewed articles, journal special issues, peer-reviewed book chapters, reports, etc.), i.e that were published before I joined PRIO in late 2017. From that pre-PRIO period, some selected publications are listed below, together will all my PRIO works. 

Recent Publications

All Publications

Blog Posts