Dr. Målfrid Braut Hegghammer

Biography

Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is a Professor of War Studies at King's College London, where she has been since 2025. She is the founding director of the Oslo Nuclear Project at the University of Oslo and was appointed as a Professor of Political Science in 2020. Her past roles include serving as a doctoral fellow and associate professor at the Norwegian Defence University College, and as a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University from 2012 to 2013. She was also a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University from 2008 to 2010. Braut-Hegghammer earned her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010 and received the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize from the British International Studies Association. Her research has been published widely, including works in 'International Security' and 'War on the Rocks'. Her notable publications include 'Unclear Physics: Iraq, Libya and the Failed Build of Nuclear Weapons', and she is a co-editor of the forthcoming 'Norwegian Handbook on Politics' by Oxford University Press. Her research interests expand into nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and proliferation issues.

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