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 radicalisation, terrorism, conspiracy theories, and hate speech. Based on her research, she has given evidence to numerous governments and advised intelligence agencies, tech firms, and international organisations including the UN, Europol, and NATO. 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. She has written for The Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, and regularly gives lectures at universities in the UK, Europe, and the United States. She holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a dual MSc from Peking University and the London School of Economics.