Niklas Nilsson is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, where he is also a co-convenor of the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG) and the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG). Nilsson is a Research Fellow with the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute and the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He has previously held research and teaching positions at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, including as research coordinator for the Swedish Network of European Studies, and at Södertörn University. Nilsson has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at George Washington University and a Visiting Fellow at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) and Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He received his PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University (2015) and holds an MA in Political Science from Lund University (2006).
