Julia Ebner

Julia Ebner is a Calleva Researcher at the University of Oxford, where she leads the Violent Extremism Lab at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion. She is also Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she has led projects on online radicalization, terrorism, conspiracy myths and hate speech. Julia is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author of several books, including The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists and Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over. Based on her research, she has given evidence to numerous governments, as well as advised intelligence agencies, tech firms and international organizations such as the UN, Europol and NATO. She has written for media outlets such as the Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung and regularly gives public talks and guest lectures at universities in the UK, Europe and the United States. Julia holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a dual MSc from Peking University and the London School of Economics. Julia is a Salzburg Global Fellow.