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Anda Solea is a Lecturer in Cybercrime and a doctoral researcher at the University of Portsmouth. She has received multiple awards for her work on online extremist and misogynistic communities including the Alan Turing Enrichment Award. Anda studies the communication tactics of incels (involuntary celibates) on TikTok and YouTube investigating the role short-form content plays ...

Nicole Sanchotene is a postdoctoral researcher at NetLab – Laboratory for Internet and Social Media Research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her research focuses on disinformation and populist communication, with particular attention to how digital platforms amplify harmful content through coordinated campaigns, contributing to informational fragmentation, weakening democratic debate, and undermining ...

Keara Werth (she/they) is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. She is passionate about pursuing research which propels understanding of mass shootings, online extremism, and violence against the LGBTQIA2+ community. She has a specific interest in using comparative frameworks and computational methodologies to improve risk assessment for mass ...

Dr Sören Henrich has a PhD in Forensic Psychology with a specific focus on exploring radicalisation in forensic psychiatric populations. His research informs risk and threat assessment practice, guiding assessors to understand the function of behavioural components linked to extremist violence and explores the intersection of self- and group identity to explore online behaviour, digital ...

Katherine Kondor is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, where she leads the Research Council of Norway-funded project ‘From the Radical to the Norm: The Construction of Normalcy Through Aesthetics in Far-Right Culture’. Prior to this she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellow at the Center for ...

Dr Nicola Mathieson is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Liverpool. Nicola’s research broadly focuses on extremism but within the peace and conflict studies. Prior to her role at UoL, Nicola was the research director of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) in the International Centre for the Study of ...

Simone Long is working towards a PhD in Sociology at the University of Exeter – primarily based in the Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2) – and holds an MRes in Social Research and a BSc in Criminology. Using a combination of computational and qualitative content analysis (in addition to other quantitative methods), their current ...

Amarnath Amarasingam is an Associate Professor in the School of Religion, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. His research interests are in terrorism, radicalization and extremism, conspiracy theories, online communities, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Pain, Pride, ...

Benjamin Mok is an Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) within the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. As the Team Lead of the ICPVTR Informatics Team, he directs efforts to monitor, analyse, and interpret trends in online terrorism and violent ...

Leoni Heyn is a PhD Candidate and Researcher at both the Institute for Security Policy (ISPK) and the Department of Political Science at Kiel University. At the ISPK, she works in the De-partment for Research on Terrorism and Radicalization with a specific focus on the impact of social media, conspiracy theories and disinformation on radicalization. ...