Dr. Justinas Lingevičius

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Justinas Lingevičius gained a BA degree in Political Science in 2014 and an MA degree in International Relations and Diplomacy (Magna Cum Laude) in 2016. From 2017 to 2018, he worked as Acting Director of the European Integration Studies Centre. From 2016 to 2019, he served as a Senior Editor on the Editorial Board of Politikon: IAPSS Journal of Political Science. From 2018 to 2023, he worked as a local political expert/officer for diplomatic missions in Vilnius (British Embassy, 2018–2022; Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2020–2023). In 2021–2022, he was a Fellow of the Charlemagne Prize Academy (Germany). In 2023, the Research Council of Lithuania recognized him for outstanding results in doctoral studies. From March 2024 to September 2026, he served as a member of the Early Career Research Development Group of the European International Studies Association (EISA). In 2024, he completed a doctoral traineeship at the University of Antwerp, Belgium (supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Marijn Hoijtink). From 2024 to 2026, he worked as an International Project Coordinator at the VU IIRPS Science and Research Department. In September 2025, he defended his doctoral thesis, “Fortifying Digital Europe: Agentic Security and Technocracy in the Emerging EU AI Policy” (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė). Since September 2025, he has chaired the Politics of Technology Research Group at VU IIRPS. From September 2026, he is an Associate Professor at VU IIRPS, and from October 2026, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark (PI: Prof. Dr. Ingvild Bode).

Selected conference papers

1. Justinas Lingevičius, “Governing through Risk: AI and Pro-Democratic Security Logic”, EISA 2026 Conference on International Relations, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2026.
2. Justinas Lingevičius, “Towards Agentic Security in the Emerging EU AI Policy”, EISA 2025 Conference on International Relations, University of Bologna, Italy, 2025.
3. Justinas Lingevičius, “Small and digitally sovereign? Baltic states discover drone technologies for security”, Université Catholique de Lille, Prancūzija, 2024.
4. Justinas Lingevičius, “Towards agentic security: articulating human-technology interaction in the emerging EU AI policy”, EWIS 2024: Imagining Future War: New Perspectives on Military Technology in an Era of Great Power Competition, Istanbul University, Turkija, 2024.
5. Justinas Lingevičius, “Transformation, Insecurity and Uncontrolled Automation: Frames of Military AI in the EU AI Strategic Discourse”, EISA 2023 Conference on International Relations, Potsdam University, Vokietija, 2023.
6. Justinas Lingevičius, “Artificial Intelligence and Security as Risks: Governance of Unknown Knowns”, EWIS 2023: Rethinking Speculative Security: The Politics of Anticipation in an Age of Uncertainty, University of Amsterdam, Nyderlandai, 2023.
7. Justinas Lingevičius, “In Search of Military AI in the EU’s Strategic Discourse”, 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Athens University, Greece, 2022.
8. Justinas Lingevičius, “What a Digital Power? In Search for Defence and Security in the EU’s AI Strategic Framework”, ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck University, Austria, 2022.