PhD Candidate, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
Nafees Hamid is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, a Fellow at Artis International, and a Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust Ph.D. candidate in the Security and Crime Science department at the University College London. His research includes ethnographic interviews, survey studies, social network analysis, and psychology and neuroscience experiments with mostly European members of jihadi organizations, their friends and family, supporters of such networks, and the general communities from where they originate.
The neuroscience of terrorism: how we convinced a group of radicals to let us scan their brains
Jun 13, 2019 01:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine* was bouncy, chatting up the research...
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