Mischa Hansel is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science and European Affairs at the University of Cologne. His dissertation on international cyber-security cooperation was supported by a research grant from the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) e.V.. He worked as a Research Fellow at the German Armed Forces and Staff Academy (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr) in Hamburg, the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (GWU) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna. He has also taught at the Cologne School of Journalism and Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia). His research interests include security regimes and arms control, internet governance, the United Nations, Indian foreign policy, the Global South and human rights.