Prof Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Professor of War Studies at the Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS), based within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is the founding director of the Oslo Nuclear Project at the University of Oslo, where she was appointed Professor of Political Science in 2020. Prior to this position, Braut-Hegghammer was a doctoral fellow and an associate professor at the Norwegian Defence University College. She has been a Junior Faculty Fellow at CISAC, Stanford University (2012-13), and a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard University (2008-10).

She received her doctoral degree from London School of Economics in 2010, which received the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize from BISA the following year. She published Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons (Cornell University Press, 2016) based on her dissertation research. She is the co-editor of the Norwegian Handbook of Politics (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2025). Her work has been published in numerous outlets including International Security, The Middle East Journal, the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Monkey Cage and War on the Rocks.