Team Risk and Resilience

The Risk and Resilience Team is engaged in research and policy consulting on a range of fields that center on risks and strategies to mitigate or manage these risks. The focus is on socio-technical risks. The team is interested in creating new ways to think about and address today’s complex challenges. Concrete research topics include civil protection, risk and crisis management and critical infrastructure protection.

The team is responsible for the CSS Think Tank's Cyberdefense project. Within the framework of this project, the researchers investigate current and emerging challenges in the area of security and defense policy with a particular nexus to information technology. The team regularly produces comprehensive analysis of these developments and evaluates them with regard to their possible implications in and for Switzerland.

The team members are an active part of the scientific and public debates on their topics, both in the international and Swiss context. The team publishes the Risk & Resilience Reports and the Cyberdefense Reports of the CSS.

Stefan Soesanto is co-leader of the Risk and Resilience team. His research focuses on cyber deterrence, metrics, and the design of cyber planning games.

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Simon Aebi is co-leader of the Risk and Resilience team. His research focuses on the risk landscape of Switzerland with regard to civil protection and crisis management.

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Eugenio Benincasa’s research focuses on China’s hacking capabilities, cyber norms and disarmament, and cyber-enabled hybrid threats.

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Jurgena Kamberaj's research focuses on disaster preparedness and the impact of environmental crises and emergencies on individuals, communities, and the environment.

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Sarah Wiedemar's research focuses on information warfare, dis- and misinformation, NATO and cyberspace, and wargaming.

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Clémence Poirier's research focuses on space cybersecurity, electronic and cyber conflict in outer space as well as broader space security and defense issues.

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Leonard Schliesser's research focuses primarily on critical infrastructure security, civil defence, and low-probability, high-impact events, such as blackouts.

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