Dr Marcel Berni

Marcel Berni is the Head of the Department of Strategic Studies of the Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He studied history, political science and ecology at the University of Berne. In 2019, he completed his doctorate at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on the treatment on Communist prisoners during the Vietnam War. The study, which was published in 2020, won the André Corvisier Prize for the best dissertation in military history. Marcel Berni is an alumnus of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and serves on the editorial avisory board of the academic journal Defense & Security Analysis.