Elvira Rosert

Elvira Rosert serves as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (WISO) at the University of Hamburg since May 2017. Her academic trajectory includes prior research roles at the University of Gießen, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), where she completed her doctorate in 2016 and conducted research at the University of British Columbia on prohibitions of cluster munitions, incendiary weapons, and landmines.

Her research centers on international norms within arms control and disarmament and international humanitarian law, with current emphasis on regulatory frameworks for autonomous weapon systems. She actively develops policy recommendations while pursuing a grant proposal on the principle of unnecessary suffering in international humanitarian law and conducting a large-n study on international norm diffusion patterns. Her methodological approach prioritizes qualitative research designs and analysis of international institutions, particularly the United Nations.

Recent publications (2019-2020) demonstrate consistent focus on norm emergence in humanitarian arms control, examining cluster munitions, napalm, and autonomous weapons through journals like Contemporary Security Policy and European Journal of International Relations. These works reveal methodological rigor in comparative analysis of disarmament campaigns and agenda-setting dynamics within international security frameworks.

No scientific awards are documented in available sources, though her research receives institutional support through IFSH and PRIF affiliations. Current grant activities include development of policy-oriented proposals addressing emerging challenges in weapons regulation.

She operates primarily through the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) in Hamburg, which provides her research infrastructure for security policy analysis and arms control scholarship within Germany's leading peace research ecosystem.