Katharina Klotz

2025 Fellow

Katharina is a second-year MPhil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on the securitisation of dual-use technologies and how the property of dual-useness explains variations in securitisation trajectories. As an OCPL fellow, she researches the implications of hybrid quantum-AI sensing applications for strategic tolerance and ambiguity in the context of the Sino-American tech war. Alongside her studies, Katharina works for a geopolitical and macroeconomic advisory, teaches IR to Oxford undergraduates, and assists research on the ethics of AI in space at the Oxford Internet Institute. In the past, she was the European Youth Rapporteur to the Council of the EU in digitisation matters. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Economics from LMU Munich and is fluent in German, English and Italian.