Outreach

As a research and transfer cluster, CNTR combines basic research and academic exchange with the transfer of results into politics and society. Our researchers therefore network with the scientific community at conferences and symposia. At the same time, they contribute their expertise in dialogue with political decision-makers, in the media and in publicly accessible formats.

Here you find an overview of where our staff members have presented, discussed or been approached in the past: 

  • Una Jakob participated in the 1st NATO Biotechnology Conference on 28 October 2025 in Brussels and co-chaired a workshop on “Biotechnologies and Proliferation Risks – Biodefence and Detection”.
  • Una Jakob participated in a scenarios-based workshop on chemical weapons use as part of “Project Anthracite: Assessing the Chemical Weapons capabilities of the DPRK” of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), 27 October 2025, London.
  • Panel discussion “Biological Weapons Convention at 50: Achievements, Gaps, and the Road Ahead”, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference, EUNPDC, 10-11 November, Brussels. Una Jakob participated as panelist.
  • AMC Cross-Disciplinary Conference 2025, Paths to Disarmament in Times of Nuclear Threat. Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, Uppsala, Sweden, June 12–13, 2025. Fabian Unruh, Laura Mertes, Lukas Rademacher and Luis Pazos Clemens participated.
  • Una Jakob held a presentation on “Dealing with residual chemical weapons capabilities in Syria”, IISS Missile Dialogue, Vienna, May 08, 2025 (online).
  • Yan-Jie Schnellbach gave a talk on “Measurement and Detection Methods for Nuclear Verification” at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, on April 7, 2025.
  • Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society. Fabian Unruh gave a presentation on “Applying neural networks in nuclear archaeology with nuclear reprocessing waste”. Bonn, March 12, 2025.
  • Annual Conference 2024 Deutscher Ingenieurinnenbund e.V. on the topic: “Crises through TECHNOLOGY - TECHNOLOGY against crises”. Liska Suckau gave a lecture on “Technik in der Friedensforschung – Ein Gespräch über Wehrtechnik”, November 16, 2024.
  • FONAS Conference with Fabian Unruh & Lukas Rademacher at the University of Hamburg, on October 07, 2024. Fabian Unruh and Lukas Rademacher participated at the fall conference of the Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security FONAS and gave talks about their scientific work.
  • Liska Suckau held the guest lecture “Wehrtechnik und die Verteidigungsindustrie - der Nexus zwischen technischer Forschung und Entwicklung, gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung und Rüstungskontrolle” at the 16th International Summer University for Women Students and Professionals in Engineering and Technology at Bremen University, August 2024.
  • 65th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management in Portland, USA, on July 21-25, 2024. Lukas Rademacher and Malte Göttsche gave a presentation on “Forensic Measurements for Nuclear Archaeology - Trawsfynydd revisited” and on “Reconstructing nuclear histories with archives - hands-on lessons learned”.
  • Una Jakob contributed to the SIPRI online introductory course for students of technical disciplines “Addressing the challenges posed by chemical and biological weapons” with presentations on about the chemical weapons prohibition and the use of chemical weapons in Syria. She delivered the lectures on May 28 and 29.
  • Panel discussion “Die Bombe und Deutschland” at and organized by the University Duisburg Essen on December 7, 2023. Frank Kuhn participated as a panelist.
  • Erlangen Conference 2023 “Academia engagement in multilateral export controls: Dialogue for effective approaches to implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)”, organized by the German government in cooperation with UNODA on November 8-9, 2023. Una Jakob presented the work of the Joint Committee on the Handling of Security-Relevant Research of the German Research Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  • Panel discussion “Biosecurity Research – Challenges in Communication between Science and Politics” at the Medical Biodefence Conference 2023, organized by the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology in Munich on October 22–25, 2023. Una Jakob participated as a panelist.
  • Science · Peace · Security '23, Scientific conference at the Technical University of Darmstadt, organized by TraCe, CROSSING and FONAS on September 20–22, 2023. Christian Reuter chaired the conference and participated as chair and panelist. Niklas Schörnig participated as a panelist.
  • Annual Training Programme on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, organized by Asser Institute and OPCW, Den Haag, on September 20, 2023. Una Jakob gave a presentation on “Biological Weapons, Biological Threats and Biosecurity”.
  • Information evening of the Evangelische Akademie on August 30, 2023, organised by the Evanelische Akademie, Frankfurt. Niklas Schörnig gave the lecture “Militärische Drohnen - Einführung”.
  • “Biorisks, Biosecurity and Biological Disarmament Conference”, organised by UNIDIR, UNODA and WHO in Geneva on July 4–5, 2023. Una Jakob moderated the panel “Monitoring and Verification for the BWC”.
  • CBWNet Workshop “Great Power Competition and the Norms of the CBW Prohibition Regimes”, in Berlin on May 8–9, 2023. Una Jakob gave a presentation on the United Nations Secretary General's Mechanism for Investigation of Alleged Chemical and Biological Weapons Use.
  • Panel discussion “Emerging Technologies: Impact on Peace and Security?” at the conference Reimagining Peace: New Agendas for Research & Policy in Times of Conflict, organized by the Flemish Peace Institute in Brussels on May 8–9, 2023. Frank Kuhn participated as a panelist.
  • Biorisk Expert Workshop “Biorisk Awareness and the Biological Weapons Convention”, organized by SIPRI in Stockholm on January 17–18, 2023. Una Jakob participated.

  • Una Jakob participated in the workshop “Strategic foresight on dual-use research at the One Health intersection” of the WHO, 22 May 2025 (online).
  • Workshop UNSGM Dialogue, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, June 25-26, 2025. Una Jakob held a presentation on “Political Context: The 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1927 Biological Weapons Convention”.
  • Workshop Verification of the Biological Weapons Convention, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, May 07, 2025. Una Jakob held a presentation on “Confidence-building and verification for the Biological Weapons Convention”.
  • SIPRI WMD Course for Natural Scientists, April 09, 2025 (online). Una Jakob held a lecture on “Chemical Weapons, their Arsenals, Proliferation and Disarmament”.
  • Webinar Organisational, Institutional and Financial Matters, BWC Working Group Friends of the Chair Webinar Series, UNIDIR, November 26, 2024. Una Jakob participated as panelist.
  • 2nd Erlangen Conference Academia Engagement in Multilateral Export Controls: Dialogue for Effective Approaches to Implementing UNSC Resolution 1540, Bundesausfuhramt (BAFA), Federal Foreign Office, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, Nuremberg, November 20, 2024. Una Jakob gave a keynote speech „What is good science?”.
  • Presentation of the CNTR Monitor 2024 in Political Berlin at the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Defense and a networking breakfast with people from research, professional practice, civil society, politics and the media, November 21–22, 2024.
  • Biosecurity Strategy Group of CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations). Una Jakob is a member.
  • Webinar Compliance and verification, UNIDIR, BWC Working Group Friends of the Chair Webinar Series, May 13, 2024 (online). Una Jakob participated as panelist.
  • Young Deep Cuts Commission, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. Frank Kuhn is a member.
  • Young Women in Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Mentorship Programme 2023-24, sponsored by the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium. Una Jakob participates as mentor.
  • Meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention Working Group in Geneva in December 2023. Una Jakob participated as advisor to the German delegation.
  • Meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention Working Group in Geneva in August 2023. Una Jakob participated as advisor to the German delegation.
  • Policy advice for Interacademy Partnership (IAP) in 2023. Simulation of a scientific advisory body for the Biological Weapons Convention. Una Jakob participated as an expert.

CNTR is present in Frankfurt am Main as well as in political Berlin. Are you looking for experts for interviews, events or background discussions? We will be happy to put you in touch with our researchers.

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