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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. ...

PhD Candidate in Information Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (IBICT). His research focuses on online disinformation ecosystems in Brazil, particularly the discrediting of science, socio-environmental conspiracies, and their intersections with extremism. He is a researcher and project coordinator at NetLab, UFRJ’s ...

Stefan Meingast is Chairman and Managing Director of SCENOR, a non-profit and independent research organisation in Austria. His research addresses violent extremism, terrorism, radicalisation, and conspiracy myths, with a particular focus on digital communication environments. He has coordinated numerous projects, for instance examining right-wing extremist networks and hate speech across youth-oriented platforms, investigated religiously motivated ...

Marguerite Borelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CNRS Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in Paris, where she currently works on the ClaimSov Open Research Area (ORA) project focusing on digital sovereignty. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2025, focused on the governance of terrorist content on social media, with an emphasis on the involvement ...

Joshua Farrell-Molloy is a PhD student at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. His doctoral project focuses on digital subcultures and is part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie ‘VORTEX’ Doctoral Network, which focuses on developing new evidence-based innovative strategies to counter and prevent ideological and behavioural radicalisation. He holds an MA in ...

Allysa Czerwinsky (she/her) is a Research Fellow in AI Trust and Security at the University of Manchester. Her research sits at the intersections of technology, harm, and violence, with a specific focus on male supremacist and extremist groups operating in the online sphere, identity-based harm, and gender-based violence. Alongside this, she’s interested in ethical approaches ...

Kate Tomkins is a Doctoral researcher of Criminology at the University of Southampton. Her research examines the dynamics of extremism and accelerationism, employing a multi-methodological approach that incorporates network analysis and advanced digital semiotic content analysis through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. With an emphasis on the relationships between digital semiotics, social identity ...