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Jelena Vićić

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jelena Vićić

Jelena Vićić is a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Peace and Security Studies, University of California, San Diego. Her research areas of interest are security studies, cyber competition, cyber-enabled influence operations, cyber strategy, and European politics. In her work, Jelena employs diverse methods including experimental methodology informed by wargaming, statistical modeling, and semantic network analysis (text as data). Broadly, Jelena’s research explores the interaction of technology and international conflict with focus on competition in and through cyberspace. Jelena's doctoral dissertation examines the fundamental dynamics behind why cyberspace has become an unstable environment, and how states use cyberspace as a tool of statecraft to compete below the threshold of armed conflict. Jelena completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati in political science and holds a graduate certificate in IT. She has previously obtained a Master of Advanced International Studies (MAIS) from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and holds a bachelor’s degree from the American University in Bulgaria. In her free time, Jelena likes learning foreign languages, rock climbing, and playing with her cats.