Matt Cottee

Matthew Cottee is completing his PhD in the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He is also a Research Associate at the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA), a research centre within King’s Policy Institutes. He has independently arranged and conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with senior officials and academics in a number of regions, including the US, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He has lectured on nuclear terrorism, presented several conference papers on nuclear security and has published in leading academic journals, most notably in International Affairs. In 2012 Matt was a participant in the Nuclear Scholars Initiative at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, D.C, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies in 2011.

Matthew's doctoral research explores changing threat perceptions of nuclear terrorism in the US and UK since 1945 and charts the corresponding evolution of the nuclear security regime.