Lea Brost
Lea Brost is a PhD candidate in Law & Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London, looking at Islamist narratives on TikTok. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH). Previously, she worked as a researcher at the IFSH, conducting a long-term study of Islamism in Germany. For this, she examined Islamist plots, attacks, and non-violent activities, as well as the security authorities’ perceptions of the threat from 2001 to 2023. In the past, she has analysed and compared German counterterrorism measures from the 1970s to the present, targeting left-wing, right-wing and Islamist terrorism. Prior to her work at the IFSH, she did an internship at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism in New York. She studied International History and Politics at the University of Leeds and the Università degli Studi di Siena, and did the MA Intelligence and International Security at King’s College London.