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Marijn Hoijtink is a Research Professor (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the Department of Political Science within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp. She earned her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2016 with a dissertation titled ‘Securing the European Homeland: Profit, Risk, Authority’. Prior to joining the University of Antwerp, she held the position of Assistant Professor in International Relations at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Young Academy of Flanders. Hoijtink serves in key academic roles, including Chair of the Examination Committee and Fraud Committee for the Master in International Relations and Diplomacy, as well as effective voting member on the Department Council of Political Sciences, Faculty Council of Social Sciences, Education Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Ethical Committee on Misuse, Human Rights & Security.

Her research integrates International Relations, critical security studies, and science and technology studies to explore the mutual shaping of war and technology. Core interests encompass military technology, AI-enabled and algorithmic warfare, the changing character of warfare, experimentation in warfare, digital platforms and warfare, private security, big tech in security, and gender and security. She leads prominent projects such as PLATFORM WARS (2024-2029), examining the platform model’s expansion in defense innovation, procurement, warfighting practices, regulation, and ethics; Realities of Algorithmic Warfare (2025-2028, co-led with Lauren Gould), analyzing algorithmic decision-making in targeting, civilian harm in Ukraine and Gaza, and accountability tools; Weaponizing AI for Democracy (2025-2026); Start-Up Warfare (2024-2028); the global arms lab (2024-2026); and the Belgian Network for Research on Technology, Security and Conflict (2024-2028). Hoijtink has published in top journals including Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, European Journal of International Security, and Minds and Machines. Key works include the book Technology and Agency in International Relations (2019); ‘Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google’s Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow’ (2022); ‘Prototype Warfare: Innovation, Optimisation, and the Experimental Way of Warfare’ (2022); ‘Whose (In)Security? Gender, Race and Coloniality in European Security Policies’ (2023); and ‘Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War’ (2025). She teaches Europe in a Global Order and supervises bachelor theses in Political Science.