Ivar Vargas Rivas

Name: Ivar Vargas Rivas
Title
Organisation: Politics and International Relations School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
Address: Edinburgh UK
Telephone
E-Mail: ivar dot vargas at ed dot ac dot uk
Research Interests: International Security, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, International Law & International Relations, Ethics, International Humanitarian Law, Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Pierre Bourdieu, Ontological Security Theory, Chile
URL: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/ivar_vargas_rivas

Supervisors

Experience

Between 2015 and 2019, I worked as Bilateral Affairs Officer for the International Relations Department at Chile's Ministry of Energy. I was resposible for advancing the process of energy integration and cross-border power interconnections between Chile and neighbouring countries. I was also involved in the negotiations and implementation of the German-Chilean Energy Partnership along with the BMWi.

In that role, I was also in charge of attracting international funds of technical cooperation from Multilateral Development Banks (IADB, CAF, etc.) to support Chile's Sustainable Energy Programme and Chile's Energy Agenda, as well as energy integration studies with Argentina and Peru.

Previously, I worked as a Multilateral Projects Coordinator for the International Cooperation Programme at the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (2011-2014). I was in charge of implementing several international projects of scientific and technological cooperation between Chile and the EU financed by the FP7 (CHIEP-II, ENSOCIO-LA and CEST+I).

Education

2019-present PhD Politics, The University of Edinburgh, UK.

2014-2015 Master of International Relations, The University of Melbourne, Australia (First Class Honours, 2015)

2006-2010 Bachelor of Political and Administrative Sciences, Major in Political Science, University of Concepción, Chile (Highest Distinction, 2011).

Funding and Awards

2019 - International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP), "U.S. Energy Policy - Security, Independence, and Innovation", U.S. Department of State.

2019 - Foreign Doctorate Studies Scholarship, Becas Chile, Conicyt.

2013 - Foreign Master's Studies Scholarship, Becas Chile, Conicyt.

2006 - Excellence Scholarship, University of Concepción.