Alexander K. Bollfrass
Alexander K. Bollfrass is an Editor at Binding Hook, a media-spinoff of ECCRI. Alex is also a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He was previously a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and a wargame designer at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Alex was a nuclear weapons policy researcher at the Washington-based Arms Control Association and Stimson Center before earning a Ph.D. in security studies from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
His academic writing centers on the role of intelligence services in nuclear politics and the verification of nuclear treaties. Alex has written in the Washington Post, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Today, Survival, Foreign Affairs, and others on the policy implications of his research.