Dr Julia Ebner is one of the Co-Executive Directors at ISD Germany. She’s an expert on online radicalisation, conspiracy myths and threats to democracy and minority rights, and terrorism prevention. She leads the recently founded Violent Extremism Lab at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and is a Calleva Research Associate at Magdalen College (University of Oxford). Julia first joined ISD in 2017 as a Research Fellow at ISD. She regularly advises governments, intelligence agencies, tech firms and transnational organisations, including NATO, Europol, the World Bank, Google, and Meta. She has also worked for the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism as a Special Advisor on Terrorism Prevention.  

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

Julia holds a DPhil in Anthropology from Oxford University, and a dual Msc from Peking University and the London School of Economics. She speaks fluent English, German and French and intermediate Spanish, and Mandarin.