Nicolò Scremin
PhD Candidate
Nicolò Scremin is an SGSSS/ESRC-funded doctoral candidate in the Department of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research explores the role of family in facilitating or constraining transitional journeys into and out of extremism. His work seeks to develop both theoretical and empirical insights into the mechanisms through which extremist ideas, beliefs, and values are transmitted across generations, as well as the factors that can trigger or inhibit radicalization at different life stages.
He is a Lecturer and Module Convenor for the M.A. module on Terrorism and Radicalization at Università degli Studi della Tuscia (UNITUS), Italy. His research has been published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Small Wars Journal, the International Counter-Terrorism Review, and Mondadori Università. He is the author of Terrorismo: Teorie, Problemi e Prospettive (Mondadori, 2021) and co-editor of Jihadist Terror: New Threats, New Responses (I.B. Tauris, 2019).
Mr. Scremin holds a B.A. with honors in Investigation and Security Sciences from the University of Perugia and an M.A. in Terrorism, Security, and Society from King’s College London, where he graduated with Distinction. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Previously, he worked as a Research Analyst at Combating Jihadist Terrorism in the UK (CoJiT-UK) and served as a Researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).