Adam Hanzel is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at Metropolitan University Prague, contributing to the EU-GLOCTER project. He holds bachelors degrees in computational linguistics and Slavic and Eurasian studies and a master’s degree in Slavic and Eurasian Studies both completed at the University of Texas at Austin. In light of rapidly shifting international legal and political norms, Adam’s dissertation analyzes the trends and policy implications of counter-terrorism legislation in Eurasia from 2000 to present. Principally, this work looks at how counter-terrorism policy has developed in the region, proposed counter-terrorism legislation, and how counter-terrorism is being used as justification for other legislative and the rule-of-law changes.
Adam specializes in mixed methods and interdisciplinary approaches that combine regional expertise and qualitative analysis with natural language processing and machine learning. He has published on radical Russian Orthodox groups in Russia, Russia’s targeted killing program, and Russian hybrid warfare towards regime dissidents. He is currently authoring works on artificial intelligence in the social sciences, knowledge-graph and machine learning in intelligence applications, and lessons learned from targeted killings as they enter a global “gold era.” Beyond formal publications, he has used his experience in mixed methods to help contribute to research labs at the University of Texas at Austin in the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL), and the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security in Digital Humanities research group.
