Milena Uhlmann is a Policy Advisor at the Counter-Terrorism Task

Force of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building

and Community. Prior to this position, she worked as a Research

Associate at the Migration, Integration and Asylum Research

Centre of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

In that function, she evaluated the work of the Advice Centre on

Radicalisation, which is also located at the Office. Based on the

evaluation, she designed a comprehensive research project to

provide practical support to persons working in deradicalisation.

 

Before joining government services, Milena worked as a researcher

and consultant for organisations such as the Royal United Services

Institute and the Institute for European Politics on security related

topics.

 

She has been working on topics such as developing comprehensive and interdisciplinary approaches to countering violent extremism, facilitating knowledge transfer between practice, research and policy, and enhancing empirically-based research on (de)radicalisation. She has conducted extensive research on conversions to Islam in Western Europe, the topic of her dissertation.