Dominika Kunertova is a nonresident senior fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Kunertova is a research scientist with over a decade of transatlantic professional experience in academic, think tank, and international organization settings. Her research covers military applications of emerging and disruptive technologies and their impact on international security, the character of warfare, and transatlantic defense cooperation.

Originally from Slovakia, Kunertova previously worked as a senior researcher at ETH Zürich’s Center for Security Studies. She is also a NATO partner country director of a research project on future drone warfare and technology, funded by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.

Kunertova previously worked as an international staffer conducting strategic foresight at NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, and supported capability development at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for War Studies in Denmark, where she researched military uncrewed systems and taught graduate courses in European security policy.

Kunertova’s research has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Contemporary Security Policy, Defence Studies, European Security, the Journal of Contemporary European Research, Military Review, and the Naval War College Review. She has also written numerous policy reports and briefs on drones, missile technology and arms control, hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, and European security in the NATO context. Her public affairs commentary has appeared in outlets including Le Rubicon, the Royal United Services Institute Newsbrief, The Conversation, and War on the Rocks. Kunertova holds a PhD in political science from the University of Montreal.