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Jaakko Kilpi
Jaakko Kilpi is a pre-doctoral researcher in the Digital Economic Security Lab at Aalto University. His research examines the digital dependencies of public sector institutions on commercial cloud infrastructure. His work draws on quantitative and computational methods, combining machine learning with empirical validation to study these dependencies across multiple countries.
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EERO LINDBOHM AND JOHAN VAN DER MEER JOIN DIESL
In March, Eero Lindbohm and Johan van der Meer joined DIESL as master thesis workers. Eero is a student of Aalto’s Master programme in Information Networks. His thesis deals with the analysis and mitigation of risks to “sovereign” cloud solutions. Johan is a student of Aalto’s Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Master programme. At DIESL,
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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 DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. Her research, supervised by Carl Benedikt Frey and Vili Lehdonvirta, focuses on the governance and security of network infrastructure in the context of AI, with particular attention to submarine cable and satellite networks. She holds an undergraduate degree from Sciences
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford