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Jared Holt is a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council鈥檚 Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), where he researchers domestic extremist movements in the United States and how they utilize the internet.

Dr. Aleksandra Urman is a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Computing Group of the University of Zurich.

In her research, she employs computational methods to examine various aspects of political communication on social media, with a particular focus on polarization, authoritarian regimes and far-right groups.

Neil Johnson聽is a professor of physics at George Washington University in Washington D.C., and a visiting professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was a Research Fellow at the聽University of Cambridge, and later a Professor of Physics at the聽University of Oxford聽until 2007. He has more than 300 published research papers across a variety of research topics. His published books include聽Financial Market Complexity聽published by聽Oxford University Press聽and聽Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory聽published by聽Oneworld Publications.聽

Dr. Kurt Braddock is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Faculty Fellow in the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, both at American University. His research centres on the persuasive strategies used by extremist groups that promote recruitment and radicalization to violence in support of those groups. He advises and consults with a number of domestic and international organizations, including the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism. His first book, Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.