About Julia

Dr. Julia Ebner is an expert on online radicalisation, conspiracy myths and threats to democracy and minority rights, and terrorism prevention.

Julia has led a wide range of research and advisory projects, as well as being involved in several undercover investigations, including infiltrating the online chatrooms and in-person meeting spaces of extremist groups across the ideological spectrum to expose their methods of radicalisation.

Biography

Based on her experience she regularly advises governments, intelligence agencies, tech firms and transnational organisations, including NATO, Europol, the World Bank, Google, and Meta. She has also worked for the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism as a Special Advisor on Terrorism Prevention.

Julia is the author of several award-winning and internationally bestselling books including Going Mainstream (2023), Going Dark (2019) and The Rage (2017). She is also a regular contributor to news outlets such as the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung, and has featured in flagship broadcast programmes and documentaries in the UK, US, Germany and beyond.

Currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) in London and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University’s Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Science, Julia holds a DPhil in Anthropology from Oxford University, and a dual Msc from Peking University and the London School of Economics. She speaks fluent English, German and French and intermediate Spanish, and Mandarin.

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