Dr Julia Ebner
Dr Julia Ebner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Calleva Centre of Evolution and Human Sciences, specialising in radicalisation, extremism and terrorism studies.
Dr Julia Ebner is a researcher specialising in radicalisation, extremism and terrorism studies. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences at Magdalen College (Oxford) where she studies why authoritarian leaders use violence to achieve their objectives. Julia completed her DPhil in Anthropology at the University of Oxford as a fully funded ESRC DTP Scholar and St John's College Alumni Fund Scholar.
Her doctoral research was a finalist for the ESRC Impact Prize 2023 and won the MRS President's Medal 2023. She is also the author of several award-winning books, including The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over (Bonnier Books, 2023).
She has provided expert evidence to governments and advised intelligence agencies, technology companies, and international organisations including the United Nations, Europol, and NATO. Based on her research and policy advisory work, Julia received the Open Society Prize 2024 from Central European University and was named 'Austrian of the Year 2024' by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and Die Presse.