​Prof. Dr. Andreas Beelmann is Professor for Research Synthesis, Intervention, and Evaluation at the University of Jena and head of the Zentrum für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Demokratiebildung und gesellschaftliche Integration (KomRex). Prof. Beelmann is renowned for his expertise in prevention and intervention, aggression, prejudice and discrimination, and meta-analytical research. At this year’s Workshop on Aggression Andreas Beelmann will provide insights into his ongoing research on developmental processes of radicalization toward violent extremism.

Prof. Dr. Christia Spears Brown is Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Equality and Social Justice in the University of Kentucky, USA. Her research involves gender stereotypes, children and adolescents' perceptions of gender and ethnic discrimination, gender and ethnic identity development, and social inequality. Only recently, she has published a book on discrimination in childhood and adolescence. Christia Spears Brown will give a keynote speech about "Discrimination in Adolescence: The Role of Aggression as a Predictor, Manifestation, and Consequence”.
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Dr. Paul Gill is an Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science at University College London. He has over 60 publications on the topic of terrorist behaviour. He has conducted research funded by the Office for Naval Research, the Department of Homeland Security, DSTL, the European Union, the National Institute of Justice, CREST, Public Safety Canada and MINERVA. Earlier this year, he began a European Research Council Starter Grant project entitled GRIEVANCE. Collectively these grants have been worth over 9 million euro. These projects focused upon various aspects of terrorist behavior including the IED development, creativity, terrorist network structures, and lone-actor terrorism. His doctoral research focused on the underlying individual and organizational motivations behind suicide bombing. This piece of research won the Jean Blondel Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Political Science in Europe for 2010. He has published in leading psychology, criminology and political science journals.