Research Centre Centre for Societal Security and Resilience (SECURE)

Contact us

Andreas Hagedorn Krogh, Head of Centre, Associate Professor (paternity leave until 22 March), ahkrogh@ruc.dk

Rasmus Dahlberg, Deputy Head of Centre, Associate Professor (acting Head of Centre until 22 March), rdahlberg@ruc.dk

Researchers

Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Robust governance and trust   

Andreas Birkbak, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Arts.
Field of research: Democracy, technology and digitalisation   

Angela Bourne, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Democratic resilience 

Nuoya Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: AI Governance, AI in Healthcare  

Rasmus Dahlberg, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Societal security, resilience, preparedness and disaster management

Anders Ejrnæs, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Civil society, security and trust in public institutions 

Silas Harrebye, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Democratic mobilisation, civil society  

Michael Friederich Kluth, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Security policy and crisis management

Niels Heine Kristensen, Professor, Department of People and Technology.
Field of research: Food safety and food supply 

Andreas Hagedorn Krogh, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Social security governance, emergency management, and crisis management

Kennet Lynggaard, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Crisis management and political decision-making during crises

Louise Wiuff Moe, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Global and local climate resilience   

Markus-Michael Müller, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Transnational security governance   

Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, postdoc, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research:  Robust governance and crisis management

Olivier Rubin, professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Creeping crises, chronic crises and disasters

Lone Simonsen, Professor, Department of Science and Environment, 
Field of research: Pandemics    

Matthew Spaniol, Senior Researcher, Department of People and Technology
Field of research: Strategic foresight and preparedness

Kristian Syberg, Professor, Department of Science and Environment.
Field of research: Risk assessment and regulation of chemicals and plastic pollution   

Eva Sørensen, professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Robust governance and democracy

Svante Aasbjerg Thygesen, PhD Fellow, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Crisis management

Jacob Torfing, professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business.
Field of research: Robust governance and co-creation

SECURE is anchored in the research environment at the Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE) and works closely with the department's research groups, especially within the Section for Politics and Administration. Existing research environments at ISE are strongly positioned internationally and nationally in areas such as civil society and social cohesion, cross-sectoral cooperation, security policy, public procurement, and especially crisis governance and robust public institutions. 

SECURE is therefore ensured strong academic embeddedness and a number of relevant expertise will be available at the institute. ISE is already part of strong collaborations with e.g. Resilience Centre Denmark and the National Defence Technology Centre. The centre is open to contributions from researchers across Roskilde University's departments and collaborates with related research centres in areas such as climate, environment and pollution, migration, crisis communication, pandemics and digitalisation, combining research at the highest level with practical and transferable knowledge. 

SECURE also leads and participates in Danish, Nordic and international research networks and consortia.