Fabian Hofmann is a PhD researcher for Technology and Governance (TaG) at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich.Fabian’s main research interests centre on (1) the socio-material practices driving the digital upgrading of cities’ security and surveillance infrastructures in the quest for urban peace and safety, (2) the governance of risks in increasingly digitised international relations through ethical frameworks and guidelines on the responsible use of digital technologies, and (3) the repertoires of resistance that ordinary city dwellers’ adopt in response to the adverse effects produced by the smartification of urban infrastructures and ever-tightening security and surveillance.Fabian holds a master's degree in International Relations and Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute. His dissertation, titled “Sousveilling the Smart City,” was funded by the Geneva Asia Society and was awarded the Arditi Prize 2024 for the best master's thesis in International Relations. Before joining the TaG group at ETH, Fabian worked as a Junior Researcher at the SNSF Ambizione project "An apomediated peace?" with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP). Previously, he was also a Civilian Servant for the Swiss Peace Foundation swisspeace and a Research Associate at the Harvard-incubated Edgelands Institute, where he participated in a qualitative exploration of Geneva's digital security and surveillance architecture.