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Marzena Oliveira Ribas is a PhD candidate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology with a specialization in Clinical Psychology from the University of Gdańsk and a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in Informatics in Medicine from Gdańsk University of Technology. In her thesis, she explores the narratives of far-right and Islamist online groups to investigate the sense of community and gendered processes of collective identity creation among group members. With this research, she aims to deepen our understanding of radicalization dynamics and inform strategies to prevent radicalization. She will participate in two secondments: one at the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt (PRIF), where her co-supervisor Julian Junk is based, and another at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague.