Inga Trauthig (PhD, Department of War Studies, King’s College London) is Research Assistant Professor in the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy (JDGI) at the Green School for International & Public Affairs, Florida International University. Her work assesses societal impacts of emerging technologies.

She has authored over 80 publications. The majority of those are peer-reviewed while others are op-eds or shorter, policy-focused pieces such as “Self-Regulation Won’t Prevent Problematic Political Uses of Generative AI” for Lawfare. She is a regular contributor to Tech Policy Press and the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). She has also joined podcasts such as BBC’s Digital Human and her comments have been featured by outlets like Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, CNN, Houston Chronicle, Foreign Policy, Tagesschau and The Washington Post.

Her work has received recognition by being nominated for the 2024 Research Excellence Career Award at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been supported by scientific institutions as well as societal funders, and she has received prizes from the Conflict Research Society or the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

She actively works to translate research insights into actionable policy advice - when collaborating with governmental institutions or other bodies such as the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), for example. She also consults with policy and security professionals and has given oral evidence in the U.K. Parliament, for instance.

Previous positions include Head of Research of the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, research fellow with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, and political consultant for corporate tech clients at Miller and Meier Consulting (MMC) in Berlin.

Other affiliations include being an expert group member with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Berlin or a fellowship with the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) at King's College London.