Hannah Aeterna Borne is a doctoral researcher at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies. She obtained her MA in International Relations from Freie Universität Berlin and her BA in American Studies from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Utah.

Within academia, she worked as a student research assistant and tutor at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy as well as the John F. Kennedy Institute at FU Berlin. There, she also contributed to the research project ‘Security Surveillance and the Construction of Transnational Spaces of Conflict’. Beyond academia, she has held internships at think tanks and human rights NGOs in Salt Lake City and Vienna. Most recently, she has worked at the European think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, focusing on digital rights, surveillance, and democracy.

In her PhD project, she analyses the deployment of surveillance technology in international conflict, with a focus on how satellite imagery is used for political purposes by different actors.

Research Interests

• International Relations and International Security
• Surveillance Technologies
• International Politics of Human Rights and Digital Rights
• Feminist Geopolitical Approaches