Dr. Sarah Lohmann, Ph.D.

Visiting Researcher

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Personal Website
sarah.lohmann [at] westpoint.edu
Dr. Sarah Lohmann is a Full-Time Teaching faculty at the University of Washington Information School and a Guest Researcher at the Army Cyber Institute. Her current research focus is on the protection of Smart and energy critical infrastructure from cyber threats. As an employee of the UW since 2019, Sarah has also taught in the UW’s Jackson School and Communications Departments. A former State Department civil servant, Sarah has done field research in Europe as a cyber SME and Visiting Research Professor for the US Army War College. She is currently co-leading the cyber research for a NATO Science and Technology project in collaboration with West Point’s Army Cyber Institute. She is an editor and contributing author of three recent books: What Ukraine Taught NATO about Hybrid Warfare (2022), Countering Terrorism on Tomorrow’s Battlefield (2022) and Emerging Technologies and Terrorism: An American Perspective (2024). Previously, she started and led the cyber program at Johns Hopkins University’s American German Institute, where she is a Non-Resident Fellow. She is on the Advisory Board of the Maritime Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence and on the Editorial Board of the defense journal Parameters.

Ph.D. in Political Science - Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen

 

M.A. in International Service - American University

 

B.A. in Communications and German - Wheaton College

Research Interests

cyber policy and law, energy critical infrastructure, renewable energies, European security, hybrid warfare, emerging technologies, AI

Current Research

Projects: National Security Impacts of AI and Large Language Models (US Army War College, Energy Security, Interoperability and Resilience (NATO STO SAS-183)

Selected Publications

Sarah J. Lohmann et al, What Ukraine Taught NATO about Hybrid Warfare (Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College Press), 2022, https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/956/ Sarah J. Lohmann et al, Countering Terrorism on Tomorrow’s Battlefield: Critical Infrastructure Security and Resiliency (NATO COE-DAT Handbook 2) (Carlisle, PA: US Army War College Press), 2022, https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/957 Lohmann, Sarah J: "AI, CHATGPT, and the Terrorism Toolbox" in: Susan Sim, Eric Hartunian, and Paul J. Milas, ed., Emerging Technologies and Terrorism: An American Perspective (Carlisle, PA: US Army War College Press), 2024, https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/967 Lohmann, Sarah "Russian Gas, Green Technology, and the Great Sacrifice", Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, June 23, 2022, https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2022/06/23/russian-gas-green-technology-and… Lohmann, Sarah, "Germany has a Math Problem and It's About to Get Worse", American German Institute, Sep. 13, 2021, https://americangerman.institute/2021/09/germany-has-a-math-problem-and…