Ariel Petrovics

Ariel Petrovics is a research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. She also serves as a visiting scholar at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver and as a nonresident fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research. Her research examines the effectiveness of foreign policy strategies on nuclear proliferation and international security.

Her most recent edited volume, "Atomic Backfires: Why Nuclear Policies Fail," examines the risks of counterproductive consequences in nuclear policy. Her work has also been published in the Journal of Global Security Studies, The Washington Quarterly, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Texas National Security Review, among other outlets.

Petrovics previously held positions as a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow and a research fellow with the Managing the Atom Project and International Security Program at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, as an IGCC Herbert York Fellow, as a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute and as a predoctoral research associate at the Center for Global Security Research. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Davis. Her work has been supported by the Stanton Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Charles Koch Foundation.