prof. dr hab. Miron Lakomy
Miron Lakomy is a Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, the University of Silesia, Poland, and a non-resident fellow at the ITSTIME research center in Milan, Italy. During his academic career, he held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge (twice, in 2011 and 2018), the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Milan (NAWA Bekker programme, 2023-2024), and the European University Institute. He was also a non-resident International Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center of the University of Milan (2022-2023). In the past, he conducted research visits to the University of Toronto, King’s College London, and the Middle East Media Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Miron Lakomy held visiting teaching positions at the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis and Università Degli Studi di Napoli. Moreover, he has headed numerous research grants, including those funded by the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (King’s College London), the International Council For Canadian Studies, and the National Science Centre in Poland. He has been a member of numerous academic bodies, including the Editorial Board of Security Journal (Palgrave Macmillan, IF: 1.866), the Countering Violent Extremism Working Group at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Constitutional Responses to Terrorism research group within the International Association of Constitutional Law. He is an open-source intelligence investigator and trainer with 10+ years of experience.
His research primarily focuses on various aspects of political violence and terrorism on the Internet, as well as military conflicts. He has published five monographs and more than 70 scientific papers in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. His papers concerning, among others, digital jihad have appeared in leading journals in the field, including Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Security Journal, Media, War & Conflict, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, and Perspectives on Terrorism. He is an author of Islamic State’s Online Propaganda: A Comparative Analysis (London-New York, Routledge, 2021; hardback). His works have been published in English, French, Hebrew, and Polish. Some of his findings on the Islamic State’s activities were widely discussed by popular electronic mass media, such as the “Huffington Post” and Yahoo!. He also contributed to the “Scientific American”.
Research projects (2023-2024):
- Mapping the digital jihadist ecosystem: Towards understanding the propaganda strategies of the violent extremist Salafi-jihadist organisations on the Internet (VEOMAP) – a project funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) within the framework of the Bekker programme. Role: principal investigator. The study was realized at the ITSTIME research center in Milan, Italy.
