Elke Schwarz is Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University of London and works on the politics and ethics of digital technologies. She is the author of Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies. She also serves as Vice Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), is an Imperial War Museum Associate, a 2024 Leverhulme Research Fellow, and 2022/23 Fellow at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS). Schwarz lives and works in London.