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 centre in Italy. He is an open-source intelligence trainer and investigator with over 10 years of experience in analysing terrorist activities across various layers of online communication, including the dark web. He was involved in projects that included, among others, WEBINT, SOCMINT, IMINT, and GEOINT. He is a member of the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation Research Committee that supports the European Commission’s DG Home.
During his academic career, he held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge (twice, in 2011 and 2018), the European University Institute, the University of Milan (non-resident), and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (NAWA Bekker program). In the past, he conducted research visits to the University of Toronto and King’s College London, among others, and delivered guest lectures at the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis and Università Degli Studi di Napoli. Moreover, he has led 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), VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, and the Countering Violent Extremism Working Group at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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 80 scientific papers and chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the 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 the author of Islamic State’s Online Propaganda: A Comparative Analysis (London-New York: Routledge, 2021). 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”.
