Julia Ebner


Julia Ebner is an Austrian terrorism and extremism researcher, and author, based in London. She has written the books The Rage: the Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism and Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists.

Career

Ebner has a BA in philosophy and a BSc in international business. She holds an MSc in international history from the London School of Economics and an MSc in international relations from Peking University.
Ebner is based in London. She has worked as a senior researcher at the counter-extremism organisation Quilliam. She is currently a resident research fellow at the counter-extremism organisation Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she specialises in far-right extremism, reciprocal radicalisation and European terrorism prevention initiatives. She has written for The Guardian and The Independent.
Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists documents Ebner's experiences over two years spent undercover, infiltrating far-right networks such as Generation Identity and Reconquista Germanica, both on-line and in person.

Publications

Publications by Ebner