Stella Blumfelde is a 2024-2025 Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellow. She is also a Research Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at University of Bologna, studying emerging technology governance. She is completing a PhD in Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Genoa. Her research centers on international governance of cyber domain, with a particular focus on cybersecurity and the role of regional organizations in international cooperation in the cyber domain. She has received an award by NATO within the 2030 Youth Summit for contributing to raising awareness of cybersecurity. She is an alumnus of the EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Consortium Young Women in Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Mentorship Programme (YWNPD), within which she explored the applicability of disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control concepts to cyber domain. Currently, she is also OSCE Young Expert for 2024-25.
