Gabriella Sarah Gricius

Dr Gabriella Gricius is an associate professor of strategy with the Krigsskolen and a network coordinator with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). She is also a senior fellow at the Arctic Institute.  

She received her PhD from Colorado State University's Political Science Department where her dissertation explored the prevalence of low-tension discourse in Greenland, Svalbard, the Northern Sea Route, and the Northwest Passage. She later was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz, where she researched Nordic defence cooperation. Her research interests broadly cover international relations, specifically dealing with Arctic military strategy and security. 

Outside of academia, she also works with the European Leadership Network (ELN) on research on hybrid threats and is a fellow with the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN). She was recently a participant with the Manfred Wörner Seminar, the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative, a Summer Associate with the RAND Corporation, and has consulted with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.  

Her writing is published in Foreign Policy, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Politics, European Security, Global Studies Quarterly, among other outlets. She has also been interviewed by BBC, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, and other major news outlets. 

Previously she was a guest researcher at both the University of Copenhagen and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, a fellow with Bridging the Gap, a junior lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a senior research associate at the Public International Law and Policy Group’s Netherlands Office, and worked with the International Criminal Court and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. She received her BA from Boston University and MA from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. 

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