MA candidate (2017) in International Conftict and Security at the University of Kent in Brussels. Having a background in psychology with the U.S. military, including overseas combat service from 2008-2010, he obtained bis BA in the subject at the University of New York in Prague, concentrating his course load on social and psychological aspects of disaster, conftict, and crisis. His research investigates individual and collective radicalization processes, where his current work focuses on lslamic political activism and radicalization in Belgium.