Inga Trauthig

Inga Trauthig is a research professor at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University. She is a security studies scholar and received her Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

Bio

Inga's research interests cover hybrid warfare, disinformation, terrorism/counterterrorism, and emerging technologies. She has authored over 80 publications. The majority of those are peer-reviewed while others are op-eds or shorter, policy-focused pieces such as “Chat and Encrypted Messaging Apps are the New Battlefields in the Propaganda War” for Lawfare. She has published in peer-reviewed journals like Conflict, Security & Development, Journal of Online Trust & Safety, New Media & Society, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and Political Research Quarterly. Inga has co-edited a special journal issue on conspiracy theories for the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

Inga is also a Consulting Scientist with the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), an expert group member for Terrorism and Domestic Security with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin and holds a non-resident fellowship with the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King's College London. Previous positions include Head of Research of the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin and research fellow with KCL’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, amongst others.

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