Elvira Rosert

Prof. Dr. Elvira Rosert is a Junior Professor (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Hamburg, jointly affiliated with the Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (IFSH) and the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (Department of Social Sciences) since 2017. From 2022-2026, she is on leave for visiting positions at Freie Universität Berlin and TU Dresden. Previously, she held research roles at Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Giessen, and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), with a doctoral research stay at the University of British Columbia.

Her research centers on international norms, arms control, and humanitarian law, with active projects on autonomous weapons regulation, norm acceptance patterns, and the erosion of prohibitions against unnecessary suffering in warfare. She employs qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze norm diffusion in disarmament campaigns.

Rosert's publications consistently explore humanitarian arms control, norm emergence, and policy frameworks. Recent works (2019-2020) focus on campaign strategies against 'killer robots,' cluster munition regulations, and theoretical examinations of norm salience in international law.

No awards or student advisements are mentioned. She leads research at IFSH but has no dedicated lab URL. Contact: rosert@ifsh.de.