Dr Julia Carver is an Assistant Professor in ISGA’s Cybersecurity Governance Research Group. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Hague Programme on International Cyber Security. She earned her DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) as the recipient of an ESRC/UKRI studentship. Prior to the DPhil, she completed an MPhil in Politics (European Governance) at Oxford with Distinction, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Queen's University in Canada, specialising in Politics and Modern European Languages.

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Dr. Julia Carver is an Assistant Professor in ISGA’s Cybersecurity Governance Research Group. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Hague Programme on International Cyber Security. She earned her DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) as the recipient of an ESRC/UKRI studentship. Prior to the DPhil, she completed an MPhil in Politics (European Governance) at Oxford with Distinction, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Queen's University in Canada, specialising in Politics and Modern European Languages.

Julia’s research explores the interplay between foreign policymaking, strategic concepts, and emerging digital technologies, including issues such as digital sovereignty, cyber-geopolitics, and networked competition. She is currently examining the development of cloud sovereignty strategies and their intersection with AI competition across Europe.

Prior to joining Leiden, Julia was a 2024–2025 European Cyber Security Fellow at Virtual Routes, a Research Associate at Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, and a Research Fellow at Oxford’s Changing Character of War Centre. At Oxford, she also served as a Lecturer in Politics at Magdalen College, where she taught undergraduate politics for three years. In 2021, she founded the Cyber Strategy and Information Operations research group (now the Oxford Technology & Security Nexus), affiliated with Oxford’s Changing Character of War Centre and Nuffield College. Julia has collaborated with national governments on cybersecurity, defence, and strategic policy, including governance responses to large-scale ransomware attacks and net assessment.