My expertise is on anti-democratic politics, online harms (e.g. extremism and terrorism, hate speech, misogyny and gender-based violence, mis/disinformation, conspiracy theories), and digital policy and regulation.

I was recently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University. My EU funded project explored the influence and impact of various stakeholders on the decision making processes of tech platforms’ content policies on extremism and terrorism.

I am also affiliated with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET) in London, an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague, and the Far Right Analysis Network (FRAN).

I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Oslo, funded by C-REX for the duration of my doctoral studies. During my PhD, I was a VOX-Pol sponsored visiting researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and a visiting researcher at New York University’s department of Media, Culture, and Communication.

I regularly give talks and advise for policymakers, practitioners, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, military organizations, and tech companies. These have included the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, The White House National Security Council, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Council of Europe, UN, and NATO, among others.

I am an expert member of the EU Research Community on Radicalisation for the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation (previously the Radicalisation Awareness Network). And a member of the Advisory Network for the Christchurch Call Foundation.

I have been featured in international media including NPR, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Folha de S. Paulo, Le Monde, de Volkskrant, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and more.