Helene Pleil
Research Associate at DSI, ESMT Berlin
Helene Pleil works as Research Associate at the Digital Society Institute at the ESMT Berlin.
She engages in cybersecurity and cyber policy through a peace and conflict studies perspective. Her focus is on cyber diplomacy, arms control, the role of disinformation, and China's role in cyberspace. Within this framework she is responsible for the conception, organization and implementation of events related to policy relevant cybersecurity topics as well as for diplomatic initiative hosted by the DSI.
She holds a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University Darmstadt. In her master thesis she dealt with the challenges of arms control in cyberspace and in this context with the Chemical Weapons Convention. Her thesis was awarded the IANUS prize for scientific and technical peace and conflict research at the Technical University of Darmstadt. She also holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Prior to joining the DSI, she gained work experience at the Cyber Foreign Policy Coordination Staff of the German Foreign Office, at Deloitte in Public Sector Advisory on Cyber Strategy, PEASEC, an interdisciplinary research institute on technical peace research, and the Schader Foundation.
She engages in cybersecurity and cyber policy through a peace and conflict studies perspective. Her focus is on cyber diplomacy, arms control, the role of disinformation, and China's role in cyberspace. Within this framework she is responsible for the conception, organization and implementation of events related to policy relevant cybersecurity topics as well as for diplomatic initiative hosted by the DSI.
She holds a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University Darmstadt. In her master thesis she dealt with the challenges of arms control in cyberspace and in this context with the Chemical Weapons Convention. Her thesis was awarded the IANUS prize for scientific and technical peace and conflict research at the Technical University of Darmstadt. She also holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Prior to joining the DSI, she gained work experience at the Cyber Foreign Policy Coordination Staff of the German Foreign Office, at Deloitte in Public Sector Advisory on Cyber Strategy, PEASEC, an interdisciplinary research institute on technical peace research, and the Schader Foundation.
