Teemu Tammikko, dark suit, light blue tie, glasses, light brown hair.

Teemu Tammikko

Senior Research Fellow
Expertise
  • State and non-state political violence, including hybrid- and cyber threats, terrorism and extremist movements. European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy, crisis preparedness, crisis management, and EU-NATO cooperation.

Teemu Tammikko is a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, an Adjunct Professor of Political Violence and Terrorism Research at University of Tampere (2020), and a crisis management veteran. He specializes in the European Union’s foreign and security policy, particularly in hybrid and cyber threats, counter-terrorism, crisis management, and border security. Tammikko holds a Doctorate (2009) and a Master’s degree (2003) in Social Sciences from University of Tampere.

In addition to his research career, Tammikko has worked at the European External Action Service from 2020 to 2024, developing strategies, resilience, and tools for countering hybrid and cyber threats, as well as enhancing cooperation between the EU and NATO in addressing these threats. He has also served as a visiting expert at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2020), as a Team Leader of a monitoring team in the EU’s civilian crisis management operation in Georgia (2009-2010), and as an intelligence officer in the EU’s Althea operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2006). 

Degrees

PhD, University of Tampere, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations

Language skills
Finnish, English and Spanish (working languages); Swedish and French (receptive skills)
Work experience

Policy Officer, acting Head of Sector, Countering Hybrid and Cyber Threats, Security and Defence Policy Directorate, European External Action Service, 2020-2024.

Visiting Researcher, Danish Institute of International Studies, 2016.

Monitor, Deputy Team Leader, and Team Leader, European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (seconded by the Finnish Ministry of the Interior), 2009-2010

Researcher, Tampere University: Department of Political Science and International Relations, 2007-2009 (Emil Aaltonen and Finnish Cultural Foundation scholarships)

Coordinator, Tampere University: Department of Political Science and International Relations, 2007

Political Analyst/Intelligence Officer, Finnish National Intelligence Cell, EUFOR Althea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2006

Researcher, Tampere University: Department of Political Science and International Relations, 2004-2006 (Tampere University scholarship)

Major secondary employments

Lecturer in Political Science, Tampere University: School of Management (Political Science), 2014

Mentor/lecturer in Civilian Crisis Management Core Courses, CMC Finland, 2011

Lecturer in Political Science, Tampere University: Department of Political Science and International Relations, 2009

Columnist in Kouvolan Sanomat, 2003-2006

Scientific expert tasks and commissions of trust

Member of the Security Council, The Finnish Committee for European Security (STETE), 2013-2014

Member of the Steering Committee, The Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission (EUROMESCO), 2013-2014

Education

Master of Social Sciences, Tampere University, 2003 (dissertation Need for a Violent Political Strategy: Spanish Anarchist and Fascist Movements on the Edge of the Civil War, Tampere 2002 (only in Finnish))

Doctor of Social Sciences, Tampere University, 2009 (dissertation Political Responses to Terrorism: A case study on the Madrid terrorist attack on March 11, 2004, and its aftermath, Tampere University Press, Tampere, 2009)

Major Courses

Reserve Officer Course 210, 1997

“The Resource Curse”-PhD Summer Course, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2005

EU Core Concept Course on Civilian Crisis Management, CMC Finland, 2007

Summer Institute in Political Psychology, Stanford University, 2007

Hostile Environment Security Training, HART Security, 2009


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