Julien Strandt is a Carlo-Schmid Fellow at NATO HQ. Prior to this, he was a research assistant at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Julien holds an MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Master in Strategy, Intelligence and Risk Management from Sciences Po Lille and an MA in International and European Governance from the University of Münster. During his studies, he gained experience working at the French Parliament’s National Defence and Armed Forces Committee, at the Université Catholique de Louvain’s Centre for International Crisis and Conflict Studies, and as an academic tutor in International Relations at the University of Münster. He is interested in the use of cyber and influence operations in statecraft and the geopolitics of emerging technologies.