Principal Investigator

Paul is a Professor of Security and Crime Science at University College London. Previous to joining UCL, Professor Gill was a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University. He has over 50 publications on the topic of terrorist behaviour. He has conducted research funded by the European Research Council, Office for Naval Research, the Department of Homeland Security, DSTL, the European Union, the National Institute of Justice, CREST, Public Safety Canada and MINERVA. Collectively these grants have been worth over 10 million euro. These projects focused upon various aspects of terrorist behavior including the IED development, creativity, terrorist network structures, and lone-actor terrorism.His doctoral research focused on the underlying individual and organizational motivations behind suicide bombing. This piece of research won the Jean Blondel Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Political Science in Europe for 2010. He has published in leading psychology, criminology and political science journals.

Email:  paul.gill@ucl.ac.uk

Noémie Bouhana is Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London, where she co-leads the Counter-Terrorism Research Group. Her work is chiefly concerned with the processes involved in the emergence of extremist social ecologies in complex social systems and the mechanisms which underpin individual vulnerability to extremist moral change. She directed the €2.9M EU FP7 PRIME project, an international consortium of six European universities working on the prevention and mitigation of lone actor radicalisation and attack behaviour, and the recently completed $1M project "The Social Ecology of Radicalisation", funded by the US DoD Minerva Initiative. Currently, she is funded by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) to develop a place-based extremism risk analysis framework. Previous work has been supported by DStl, OSCT, the MoD Counter-Terrorism Science and Technology Centre, EPSRC, and the US National Institute of Justice.

Email:  n.bouhana@ucl.ac.uk

Caitlin holds a BSc in Psychology from the Australian National University and an MSc in Investigative Psychology from the University of Huddersfield. She completed her PhD in UCL’s Department of Security and Crime Science examining risk and protective factors for violent extremism. More broadly her research looks at developing our understanding of risk and protective factors across different types of grievance-fuelled violence to inform risk assessment and management of different types of offenders and vulnerable populations. She currently manages UCL’s Jill Dando Institute Research Laboratory, bringing together practitioners and researchers to facilitate impactful research with sensitive data.

Email: c.clemmow.17@ucl.ac.uk

Philip is a current PhD student at University College London (UCL) in the Department of Security and Crime Science. He holds a BA in Criminology and Psychology and MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. Philip’s area of research lies in terrorist risk assessment criteria and process validity, hostile reconnaissance, and terrorism decision making. Some of his work has looked at sentiment analyses on prior terrorist writings and language styles to research attack predictiveness and linguistic trends between writing types. Before joining UCL, Philip worked as a Cyber Intelligence Analyst identifying patterns and trends of malicious and non-malicious strategic cyber activity globally, in particular the APAC region.

Email: philip.doherty.16@ucl.ac.uk

Florian holds a BA in Political Sciences, a MA in Comparative Politics, and an MRes in Security Science. Before joining University College London (UCL), he was involved in analysing language patterns in party manifestos at the University of Bamberg. His research interests are money laundering, organised crime, and terrorism financing. Florian is currently pursuing a PhD in Security Science at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science on the empirical analysis of money laundering patterns and its implications for policing. He is co-founder of the UCL Organised Crime Research Network (OCRN)

Email: florian.hetzel.14@ucl.ac.uk

Zoe completed her PhD in UCL’s Department of Security and Crime Science in 2019. Her research examined the spatial decision making of terrorist target selection, with a focus on lone actors and violent dissident Republican activity. She holds a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. Zoe is currently Co-Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for projects funded by Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST), UK Home Office and CPNI, including the CREST funded project “Further development of risk assessment schemes for Channel”. She has also worked on projects for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl); FP7 Preventing, Interdicting and Mitigating Extremism (PRIME); and the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence. 

Email: zoe.marchment@ucl.ac.uk

Bettina completed her PhD in the Department of Security and Crime Science at UCL, focusing on risk and protective factors for violent extremist intentions. Before joining UCL, Bettina undertook a BA in Social Science at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and an MA in International Relations at Brunel University London. After graduating from Brunel, she worked for 18 months as the research assistant on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project at Brunel, where she developed highly advanced research skills in quantitative and qualitative research methods and undertook further specialised research courses with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

Email: bettina.rottweiler.16@ucl.ac.uk

Nadine is a PhD candidate at University College London (UCL). Her current research focuses on the application, validity and reliability of terrorism risk assessment tools used to estimate and prioritise the risks posed by potential violent extremists. Nadine holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Crime Science from UCL. Her previous academic research has focused on the impact of handcuffing suspects on deception detection in police interviews, and on the relationship between terrorism and drug trafficking. Nadine has also previously conducted research on terrorism, human trafficking, migrant smuggling and cybercrime with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Royal United Services Institute, and UK law enforcement.

Email:  nadine.salman.12@ucl.ac.uk

Sandy completed a PhD in Social Psychology (Université Libre de Bruxelles), and she has worked previously at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict. Her research examines risk factors of radicalisation and extreme political attitudes in increasingly diverse and digital societies. In addition to GRIEVANCE, Sandy also contributes to a project funded by the US DoD Minerva initiative. Sandy's research has been funded by the European Association of Social Psychology, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation, and the Belgian National Research Fund.

Email: s.schumann@ucl.ac.uk

Amber is a PhD candidate at University College London (UCL), where her areas of interest are centred around radicalisation, fixated threats, and threat assessment. Currently, her research involves evaluating the human and operational side of risk assessment processes, and identifying risk factors that distinguish violent from non-violent involvement in extremism. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism from UCL. Her previous research has involved analysing the effectiveness of situational terrorism prevention measures, both in deterring attacks at certain targets and potentially displacing them elsewhere.

Email: amber.seaward.20@ucl.ac.uk

Cigdem is a PhD candidate at University of Pittsburgh. Her current research focuses on the impact of terrorist attacks on citizens' political participation. She also conducts research on how increasing terrorism threat shapes political parties' election manifestos. Cigdem holds MA degrees in Political Science from University of Pittsburgh and Sabanci University. Her previous research has focused on the relationship between people's perception of terrorism risk and their international travel behavior. She employs quantitative research methods for her studies on terrorism, elections, public protests, and political parties.

Isabelle holds a BA in psychology and linguistics from University College Utrecht in The Netherlands, as well as an MSc (research) in psychology from the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science focused on understanding and predicting targeted violence through linguistic threat assessment. Her research interests include using methods from computational linguistics in solving crime problems, verbal deception detection, and (counter) terrorism.  

Email: isabelle.vegt.17@ucl.ac.uk

Sanaz has recently completed her PhD on the investigation of transnational organised crime networks, at University College London. Sanaz has a background in clinical and forensic psychology, and an interest in research on offending behaviour and law enforcement investigative practices.  She has a history of working in a clinical forensic setting, specifically with offender rehabilitation and risk assessments. She has conducted a range of different research, including systematic reviews at the Offender Health Research Network (OHRN) at University of Manchester, randomised control trials for treatments of bipolar disorder with the TEAMS trials at the University of Manchester, and human trafficking research with the Children’s Society.

Email: s.zolghadriha@ucl.ac.uk