Dr Marcel Stolz

Marcel is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher (Consultant) in AI and Democracy on the Portulans Democracy Project of the Portulans Institute in Washington, DC. Furthermore, he is an external Research Consultant for Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre.

Marcel studied computer science at the University of Bern (BSc and MSc), with a minor degree in musicology. He continued his studies at the University of Oxford, where he pursued a DPhil (PhD) in cybersecurity. While his first two computer science degrees were very technical in their focus, his recent doctoral work emphasizes the importance of applying technical knowledge to other domains: His doctoral project explains the meaning and importance of neutrality in cyberspace; covering questions of a legal, political, policy, or social character.

Alongside his studies, Marcel has worked on national policy recommendations with Oxford’s Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre (GCSCC) and as a short-term consultant for the World Bank Group. Marcel has further worked as a senior security consultant for the Swiss cybersecurity company Redguard, as a scientific project lead for Armasuisse Science + Technology and in the domain of software development in Big Data for the Swiss national telecom provider Swisscom.

Marcel was awarded various scholarships and fellowships, such as the Konrad Adenauer Doctoral Scholarship, the Washington DC Thomistic Institute’s Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship, or the German Armed Forces’ Manfred Woerner Seminar fellowship.

In his mandatory service in the Swiss Armed Forces, Marcel has the rank of a captain. Marcel engages in voluntary work as president of the Swiss OWicers’ Association of Command Support and Cyberspace (SOG FU) and president of Die Mitte Regio Bantiger, which is a local branch of the national government party Die Mitte (“The Centre”).