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Michael H. Becker
October 13, 2025Michael 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
October 13, 2025Miron 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
October 13, 2025Olivia 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 Levenson
October 13, 2025Daniel 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 ...
Ellie Rogers
October 13, 2025Ellie Rogers is a PhD candidate within the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University. In collaboration with Moonshot, Ellie’s PhD research focuses on the algorithmic amplification of counter-speech, in the context of combatting online extremism. More broadly, her research interests include; countering violent extremism, recommender systems and the combination of online and offline ...
Moign Khawaja
October 13, 2025Dr. Moign Khawaja is a Lecturer and Researcher in International Relations and Security Studies at Dublin City University. He was awarded the prestigious Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2023-2024 and has secured multiple research grants, including funding for projects commissioned by the UK Home Office. Dr. Khawaja holds a PhD in ...
Sophia Rothut
October 13, 2025Sophia Rothut is a research associate at LMU Munich in the lab of Prof. Dr. Diana Rieger. Her research focuses on the mainstreaming of radical and extremist ideology and online radicalization. In her PhD project, she studies political online communication by social media influencers. As part of the EU-project TATE, she was also working on ...
Alexander Westphal
October 13, 2025I’m a general, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatrist on the faculty of the Division of Law and Psychiatry at Yale University, but based in the UK. I have an academic and clinical focus on autism and behaviors which can lead to legal problems, specifically vulnerabilities to extremism. LinkedIn | Bluesky ...
Michaela Rana
October 13, 2025Michaela Rana is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University (Australia). Michaela’s research focusses on preventing and countering extremism online, with youth, extremist narratives and right-wing ideological beliefs. Michaela also holds research assistant and sessional academic support positions at Deakin University, Macquarie, and RMIT University. Michaela, as a counter-terrorism program ...
Audrey Gagnon
October 13, 2025Audrey Gagnon is an Assistant Professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is a member of the executive committee of the Canadian Network for Research on Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES). She is also affiliated with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. Her ...