I am a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University. My EU funded project explores the decision making processes of platforms’ content policies on (far-right) extremist and terrorist content.

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), an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), and the Far Right Analysis Network (FRAN).

My research specializes on the global far-right, gender, and online radicalization, recruitment, and propaganda, as well as platform governance. My regional expertise includes transnational connections between India, US/Canada, and Europe.

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 contribute to international media outlets and consult for policy makers and civil society organisations. I have delivered talks for the U.S. State Department, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission, Council of Europe, UN, NATO, national and regional intelligence agencies, as well as advised for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) and tech companies. I am an expert member of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network’s (RAN) European Research Community on Radicalisation.