• Chair (elected) of the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, ASIL (2022-2025).
• Co-lead, Cyber Security Law and Policy Theme, Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) (appointed for a four-year term, 2021-2024)
• Co-Convenor & Co-Founder of the Behavioural Research Approaches in Int’l Law Network (BRAIN).
• Invited Member of the International Association of Constitutional Law Counterterrorism Working Group.
• Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL).
Professor Krebs was awarded a number of internationally and nationally competitive fellowships. Her current fellowships include:
• ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2023-2025, $446,593.00 (DE230101646)
• DFAT Visiting Legal Fellow, 2024-2025
• Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship, 2023-2025
• Visiting Fellow, Stanford Law School, 2024
AWARDS AND HONOURS
FEATURED
Professor Krebs won several internationally and nationally competitive awards, including:
• Winner of the ‘Researcher of the Year’ Award, Lawyers’ Weekly Women in Law Awards (2022).
• Recipient of the David D. Caron Research Prize, American Society of International Law (2021).
• Australian Legal Research Awards finalist, Article/Chapter (ECR) Category (2022).
• ‘New Voices in International Law’ recognition, American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2022).
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Awards: Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence (2022).
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion (team-based), Deakin University (2021).
• Selected to the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (Stanford University, 2021).
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Awards: Early Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence (2019).
• Christiana Shi Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship Award in International Studies (Stanford University, 2013-2016).
• Franklin Award for Best Paper in the Field of International Law (Stanford University, 2015).
• Selected to the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (2013).
• E. David Fishman Dissertation Award (2011-2015).
• Richard S. Goldsmith Award for Best Paper in the Field of Dispute Resolution, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (2012).
• Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Award (Stanford University, 2011).
• Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Junior Faculty Members (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007).
• Berenzon Award for extraordinary research achievements and social contribution (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
FEATURED
Professor Krebs’ research findings have influenced decision-making processes through invitations to brief high-level decision-makers, including:
• A keynote address and small group training sessions at the German Military (Bundeswehr) Leadership Academy, Hamburg, Germany (2024).
• Insight Briefing at the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), NYC, US (2023).
• Invited training sessions to senior military officers at the United States Department of Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS), Rhode Island, US (2022-2024).
• Invited training session at the Australian Military Training Law Centre, Sydney Australia (2022-2024).
• Insight briefing to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on International Fact-Finding and Global Peace Governance (2022).
• Invited consultation with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Attorney-General Department on the Government’s Electronic Surveillance Reform (2022).
• Invited consultation with the National Data Commissioner (NDC) on data sharing reform (2022) (together with Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW-Sydney).
CONSULTING / ADVISORY
Professor Krebs contributed to submissions to legislation and law reform processes through submissions to several parliamentary and law reform bodies:
• Gang Li, Lennon Chang, Shiri Krebs, et al, Safe and responsible AI in Australia: discussion paper, Submission by the Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust (CREST), Deakin University (2023).
• Shiri Krebs, Strengthening Peace Governance through Preventive Fact-Finding Mechanisms (2022), invited submission to the United Nations Secretary-General High Level Advisory Board on Global Public Goods.
• Lyria Bennett Moses, Shiri Krebs, et al, Submission: Electronic Surveillance Framework Discussion Paper, UNSW & Deakin University (2022).
• Lyria Bennett Moses, Shiri Krebs, et al, Submission on the Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper (2021), submission to the Australian Government by UNSW and Deakin University).
• Lyria Bennett Moses, Shiri Krebs et al, Submission: Australian Data Strategy Discussion Paper, UNSW & Deakin University (2021).
• Shiri Krebs et al, Response to the Australian Government Data Availability and Transparency Bill (2020), submission to the Australian Government by Deakin University.
• Shiri Krebs and Dakshina Chandra, Ownership of Data in Australia, a report submitted to the Cyber Security Research Cooperative Centre (2020).
MEDIA APPEARANCE
Predictive Technologies in Preventive Counterterrorism Global Network on Extremism and Technology, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
1 Jan 2021
London, Eng.
MEDIA APPEARANCE
Show Justice IHL’s Data Practices and the Bureaucracy of Killing Völkerrechtsblog
1 Jan 2021
MEDIA APPEARANCE
Professor Krebs is providing professional commentary to news and media platforms in her areas of expertise. Recent examples include:
• Interviewed on my work on Drones for two full episodes of the ARC-funded podcast ‘Law and the Future of War’, the University of Queensland, 2022-2023. Available at: https://law.uq.edu.au/research/future-war/podcast.
• Interviewed for ‘The Age’ story on privacy concerns relating to DNA websites: Erin Pearson, ‘Can your DNA help decode Australia’s 750 unidentified human remains?’, The Age, 5 August 2022. Available at: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/can-your-dna-help-decode-australia-s-750-unidentified-human-remains-20220803-p5b6t9.html.
• Interviewed on national news (Network Ten 5pm news) providing commentary on the security agreement with the US and UK (AUKUS) and the fallout with France (18 September 2021).
Vice-Chancellor's Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence - Through the Drone Looking Glass: A Behavioural Approach to Improve Military Knowledge Production and Risk Assessment Processes. Vice-Chancellor's Award, Deakin University
1 Jan 2022
EVENT PARTICIPATION
Professor Krebs is often invited to deliver keynotes and research presentations in Australia and internatioally. A few recent examples include:
• Invited as Visiting Legal Fellow to present research findings on Drone Warfare and Counterterrorism Technologies at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Canberra, 20 June 2024.
• Invited to showcase research project on Responsible Cybersecurity Research and Innovation at the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Annual Symposium, Canberra, 21 June 2024.
• Delivered a guest seminar to members of the International Society on Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW) on Drone Warfare, Ottawa, Canada, 26 June 2024.
• Presented research project on Cognitive Assemblages in Drone Warfare: Light, Speed, Law at the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 3 July 2024.
• Invited to share research on Legal Cynicism, Hypocrisy, and Double Standards in the Practice of International Humanitarian Law at the international conference on Double Standards and International Law, Freie University, Berlin, Germany, 16 July 2024.
• Invited to deliver a Keynote Address on “Algorithms, Avatars, and the Remaking of Global Counterterrorism” at the Leadership Academy of the German Armed Forces, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany, 24 May, 2024.
• Invited to present, alongside the Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technologies, on ‘Human Rights Implications of Emerging Risk Assessment Tools’, at the ‘Year in Review’ event at Sydney Law School, 23 February 2024.
• Invited to deliver a guest lecture on ‘Drone Warfare: Developing a Behavioural Critique of International Humanitarian Law’ at the Stanford Law School Faculty Seminar, Stanford University, 7 February 2024.
• Invited to present her work at the International Law and Social Science Speakers Series on ‘The Technological Revolution in International Humanitarian Law: A Cognitive-Behavioural Critique’, hosted by the American Society of International Law, 7 February 2024.
• Invited to deliver a Keynote Address titled ‘Above the Law -Drones and the Remaking of International Humanitarian Law’ at an international workshop on Human-Machine Learning: Interacting with Deadly Machines, Paderborn University, Germany, 30 January 2024.
• Invited to deliver a guest lecture on ‘The Technological Revolution in International Humanitarian Law’ at the Stanford Center on International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 16 January 2024.
• Invited to present on ‘Drone Vision as a Cognitive Assemblage in Military Decision-Making’ at UNSW-Sydney, 1 December 2023.
• Invited to deliver a distinguished ‘Hamburg Lecture in Law and Economics’ at Hamburg University, 15 November 2023.
• Invited to present on ‘Human-Machine Interaction in Military Decision-Making’ at the DILEMA Conference on Designing Int’l Law & Ethics into Military AI, ASSER Institute, The Hague, 12 Oct. 2023.
• Invited to deliver a special guest lecture at the Empirical Legal Studies Center, Freie University Berlin, 24 October 2023.
• Organised and participated at a webinar series on international law and the current Israeli-Gaza war, hosted by the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict and the American Society of International Law, and co-sponsored by the American Bar and the American Red Cross (2023-2024).
• Invited to participate at a webinar featuring Prominent Women in International Humanitarian Law, hosted by the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict and the American Society of Int’l Law.
• Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Blind Spots in Technology-Driven Counterterrorism,’ at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 21 September 2023.
• Invited to deliver a Keynote Address at the Annual Symposium of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, 4 July 2023.
• Invited to present on ‘Democratic Backsliding’ at New York University, US, 24 March 2023.
• Invited to deliver an opening Keynote Address on ‘Sustainable Cybersecurity’ at the Legal Executives 2023 Conference, The Institute of Legal Executives (Victoria), 1 March 2023.
BLOG
Professor Krebs disseminate her research findings to the broader community through short opinion pieces in professional blogs. Recent contributions include:
• Shiri Krebs, ‘The Secret Keepers: Security, Secrecy, and Starvation’ (2023) Lawfare. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-secret-keepers-security-secrecy-and-starvation
• Shiri Krebs, ‘Through the Drone Looking Glass: Visualisation Technologies and Military Decision-Masking’ (2022) Articles of War. https://lieber.westpoint.edu/articles-of-war/
• Shiri Krebs, ‘Predictive Technologies in Preventive Counterterrorism’ (2021) GNET Insights. https://gnet-research.org/2021/05/04/predictive-technologies-in-preventive-counterterrorism/
• Shiri Krebs, ‘Show Justice: IHL’s Data Practices and the Bureaucracy of Killing’ (2021) Völkerrechtsblog. https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/show-justice/
• Shiri Krebs, ‘All’s Fair in Law and War? Legal Cynicism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ (5 September 2019) International Law & International Legal Thought. Available at: https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/alls-fair-in-the-law-of-war/
