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Ellie 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 ...

Dr. 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 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 ...

I’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 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 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 ...

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 ...