Dr Daniel Koehler

Daniel Koehler holds a PhD in political science and studied comparative religion, political sciences and economics at Princeton University and Free University Berlin. His work focuses on terrorism (far-right, jihadist and left-wing), radicalization and deradicalization processes and programs. He worked as a deradicalization and family counselor in multiple programs and developed several methodological approaches to deradicalization for over 10 years. Daniel is also the co-founder of the first peer reviewed open access journal on deradicalization ( www.journal-derad.com), which he created together with the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS) in 2014.

In 2016 he was appointed as the first court expert on deradicalization in the United States of America at the District Court in Minneapolis. In July 2017 Daniel became a member of the Editorial Board of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague. In November 2019, he was appointed as Research Fellow at the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the “Center for University Excellence (CUE)” of the American University in Washington D.C. Daniel was a Research Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) in the UK. Currently, Daniel is the head of research at the Terrorism Analysis and Research Unit within the Joint Counterterrorism Center at the State Bureau of Investigation and co-director at the Competence Center Against Extremism in Baden-Wuerttemberg.