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Stefka Schmid
Stefka Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University with the GEOCLOUD project. Her research aims to gain a better understanding of how states interact with each other and with cloud providers in shaping the geography of computation. She is specifically interested in how governments interact with ‘hyperscalers’ as technology becomes geopoliticized, as well as
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Markus Holmgren
Markus Holmgren is a researcher at Aalto University and the GEOCLOUD project, visiting from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. His work in GEOCLOUD focuses on the geostrategic agency of hypercompute providers, digital sovereignty services, and clouds as instruments of leverage. His research interests relate to the general themes of digital power politics, tech-enabled geoeconomics,
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Kunhan Li
Kunhan Li is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University with the GEOCLOUD project. His research focuses on comparative policy analysis, investigating how governments in Europe, East and Southeast Asia, the U.S., and China shape cloud infrastructures through policy interventions, and assessing their implications for digital sovereignty and the global geography of computation. Kunhan holds
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Anniki Mikelsaar
Anniki Mikelsaar is a Dame Stephanie Shirley Scholar and DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Her research, supervised by Carl-Benedikt Frey and Vili Lehdonvirta, examines the governance and security of digital infrastructure with a focus on submarine cable networks. Anniki’s work on network infrastructure security bridges academic, policy, and professional contexts.
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Ana Paula Gonzalez Torres
Ana Paula is a doctoral researcher working on the regulation of artificial intelligence. In specific, the European Union’s AI Act. Her research aims to bridge the gap between legal provisions and computer science practices with a view to responsible AI. In her work, Ana Paula has conducted interdisciplinary analyses of the global AI policy frameworks, AI Act, regulatory sandboxes, and efforts
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Kaarlo Liukkonen
Kaarlo Liukkonen is a project worker in the Digital Economic Security Lab (DIESL). His research is focuses on digital dependence and the geopolitics of cloud computing and data centres. Before joining DIESL Kaarlo worked as a software development consultant.
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford