Dr Julia Ebner is an expert on online radicalisation, conspiracy myths, threats to democracy, minority rights, and terrorism prevention. Julia has led various research and advisory projects and participated in undercover investigations, infiltrating extremist groups' online chatrooms and in-person meetings to expose their radicalisation methods.

Julia regularly advises governments, intelligence agencies, tech firms, and transnational organisations, including NATO, Europol, the World Bank, Google, and Meta. Julia has also served as a Special Advisor on Terrorism Prevention for the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism.

Julia is the author of several award-winning and internationally bestselling books, including "Going Mainstream" (2023), "Going Dark" (2019), and "The Rage" (2017). She contributes to news outlets such as the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, and has appeared in major broadcast programmes and documentaries in the UK, US, Germany, and beyond.

Julia leads the 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.