Mirna El Masri is a PhD candidate at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS), University of Mannheim, and a Research Associate at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), in Berlin. She holds a MSc in International Relations from the University of Essex, United Kingdom, and a BA in Social Sciences from the University of Braunschweig, Germany.
Her current research interests include political violence, radicalization, terrorism, and quantitative methods.