BIO
Verena Gruber is a PhD candidate at the Defence Studies Department at King’s College in London. Graduated from the Center of Middle Eastern Studies of Lund University in Sweden and with a background in Political Science, Miss Gruber is specialized on the intersection of state-building-politics and military transformations in the aspects of civil-military relations, post-conflict transitions, and military merging processes. Based on a four month field work, her most recent research is focused on the Kurdish territories in the north of Iraq.