Dr Jon Roozenbeek

Jon Roozenbeek is Director of the Influence and Technology (It)Lab at Cambridge and Associate Professor at the VU University (Amsterdam).

Jon works on the psychology of intergroup conflict and (digital) media effects. His research comprises two major themes: modern propaganda and intergroup conflict (with a specialisation in the Russian-Ukrainian war), and understanding and countering misinformation, disinformation, and extremism. He has written two recent books: The Psychology of Misinformation and Propaganda and Ideology in the Russian-Ukrainian War.

He was the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and a Lecturer in Psychology and Security at King's College London . His research focuses on misinformation, vaccine hesitancy, online extremism and inoculation theory. As part of his research, he co-developed the award-winning fake news games Bad News, Harmony Square and Go Viral. Jon is also interested in social media research, agent-based modelling and natural language processing. His doctoral dissertation (University of Cambridge, 2020) examined media discourse and identity during the Donbas War in eastern Ukraine. 

More information: Google Scholar, ResearchGate.