Krystyna Marcinek

Krystyna Marcinek is a research associate at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a PhD Fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and an Assistant Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation.

Prior to that, she held analytical and advisory positions in several government institutions in Poland, including the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Polish military, where her primary focus was Russian influence on Polish and regional security. Her research interests include great power competition, Russia gray zone tactics, and robotic warfare. At CGSR, Krystyna is working on game theoretical model to examine the impact of unmanned military technologies, including autonomous weapons systems, on the likelihood of use of force in interstate conflict.

Krystyna holds an M.Phil. in Policy Analysis from Pardee RAND Graduate School and M.A. with honors in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.