Tobias is Director of the Homeland Security and Resilience department at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.  He completed his Ph.D in International Security and Politics from the University of Bradford in 2005 with a thesis entitled “Non-Lethal Weapons: Technology for Lowering Casualties”. 

He has previously worked as a Research Fellow for the Landau Network, Centro-Volta in Italy, examining the development, use, and legality of chemical/biological incapacitating agents, a Research Associate for the Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project at the University of Bradford and within the Home Office.  He has published widely on issues relating to non-lethal/less-lethal weapons, police/military weapons training and operations. 

His current research work focuses on assessing potential new technologies for use with counter-terrorist operations, and critically analysing the supply of technology to the wider Homeland Security market.  He is also leading RUSI’s ‘Climate Change – The Global Security Impact’ research programme which explores climate change as a security issue.