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.
Julia leads the recently founded Violent Extremism Lab at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Science (Magdalen College). She teaches courses for Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) in London.
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.