Jonas Franken is doctoral candidate and Research Associate at Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests are located within the nexus of policy, technology, and international law, focusing on the resilience of Critical Information Infrastructures on land and at sea, as well as emerging problems in Maritime Security and the digitalization of Critical Infrastructures. As a former tutor in quantitative and qualitative methods in the social sciences, he is also concerned with theoretical-methodological issues of interdisciplinary peace, conflict, and security research. He studied “Politics & Law” (B.A.) at the University of Münster and completed his Master’s degree in “International Studies / Peace and Conflict Research” (M.A.) at the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2022. The former member of the German Navy was for a long time engaged in civilian sea rescue. He is currently Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellow.