Dr. Eviane Leidig is Director of Research and Outreach at the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH). She leads CSOH’s research projects and coalition building efforts to combat hate, extremism, and digital harms. Eviane is an expert on online radicalization, extremism, threats to democracy, and platform governance and regulation.

Prior to joining CSOH, Eviane was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University, a Research Fellow in Current and Emerging Threats at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, and a doctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on online hate movements, gender and violent misogyny, conspiracy theories, mis/disinformation, and the mainstreaming of far-right ideology across India, North America, and Europe.

Eviane regularly advises governments and policymakers, intelligence and military agencies, the tech industry, and international organizations, including the UN, Europol, NATO, Council of Europe, and various foreign ministries. She has also contributed to multistakeholder forums such as the Global Network on Extremism and Technology in London, the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation in Brussels, and the Advisory Network of the Christchurch Call. 

She is frequently featured in leading media outlets such as NPR, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Times, de Volkskrant, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde, The Straits Times, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Eviane holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Oslo, a MSc from the University of Bristol, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.