Edwin Bakker is director of the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CTC) of Leiden University Campus The Hague and professor of (Counter-)Terrorism Studies at the Institute of Public Administration of that same university. He also holds the position of research fellow at the International Centre for Counter Terrorism – The Hague. In addition, he is a member of the editorial board of the following (academic) journals: Security and Human Rights, the Journal of Strategic Security, Vrede & Veiligheid (Peace & Security) and Internationale Spectator. Bakker is a guest lecturer at the NATO Defense College in Rome and member of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee. He is also the lead instructor of the popular MOOC "Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice" on Coursera.From 2007 to 2011, Bakker was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’. He was head of the Security and Conflict Programme. In 1997, Bakker obtained a PhD degree with his thesis on minority conflicts in Slovakia and Hungary. He graduated from Groningen University where he studied Economic Geography. Bakker’s research interests include radicalisation and jihadi terrorism, characteristics of (jihadi) terrorists, dealing with (fear of) terrorism and its policy implications.