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Kevin Marc Blasiak is a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Vienna’s Faculty of Informatics, where he leads the Responsible Computing Circle at the Center for Technology-driven Social Innovation (CTSi). His research explores technology governance, trust and safety, and persuasive technologies, with a focus on ethical generative AI interventions for countering violent extremism across digital environments and ...

Sandy Schumann (PhD) is a Lecturer at University College London, Department of Security and Crime Science, the programme director of the MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism, as well as the co-lead of UCL’s chapter of the UK Reproducibility Network. Her current research examines online harms victimisation, hate speech desensitisation, and the dynamics by which extremist content ...

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 ...

Kristián Földes is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of International Relations, Charles University. His research focuses on political discourse, securitisation, and governance, with a strong emphasis on propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, and information warfare in online environments. He specialises in Qualitative Content Analysis and Critical Discourse Studies. His recent work examines elite narratives during ...

Thomas Renard is Director of ICCT since 2021. His research focuses on (counter-)terrorism and (counter-)radicalisation in Europe. His recent research has focused on the evolution of counter-terrorism policy in liberal democracies, on anti-government extremism, on (returning) foreign fighters, on radicalization in prison and on terrorist recidivism. His latest monograph is The Evolution of Counter-Terrorism since ...

Dr Rachel Worthington (PhD) is a HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and European Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience working directly with clients who have been victims or perpetrators of offending both in person and the online space. She has clinical expertise in the risk assessment and treatment of both adults and ...

Michael H. Becker, Ph.D. is a Research Associate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha – National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE) and is based out of Washington, DC. His research examines the individual and group correlates of support for, and participation in violent extremism, process and outcome measures in P/CVE programming, and ...

Miron Lakomy is a Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, the University of Silesia, and a non-resident fellow at the ITSTIME research centre in Italy. He is an open-source intelligence trainer and investigator with 10+ years of experience in analysing terrorist activities on various layers of online communication, including the dark web. During his ...

Olivia Brown is an Associate Professor in Digital Futures at the University of Bath, School of Management and Deputy Director of the Bath Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour. Liv’s research sits at the intersection of psychology and behavioural science, aiming to understand how intra- and inter-group processes influence individual and group behaviour in online ...

Daniel E. Levenson is a PhD student at Swansea University, where his research is focused on Artificial Intelligence and terrorist education. He is a member of CYTREC (the Cyber Threats Research Center) as well as a member of the governing board of the Society for Terrorism Research. LinkedIn ...