Professor Tahir Abbas FAcSS holds the Chair in Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague and the Scientific Coordinator of H2020 RIA 'DRIVE' [Determining multilevel-led causes and testing intervention designs to reduce radicalisation, extremism and political violence in North-Western Europe through social inclusion], a consortium led by Leiden University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science.