Julia Ebner (born 1991)[1] is an Austrian researcher and author based in London.

Ebner holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Science at Magdalen College.

[4] In 2017 she joined the counter-extremism organisation Institute for Strategic Dialogue as a research fellow,[4][5] where she specialises in far-right extremism, reciprocal radicalisation and European terrorism prevention initiatives.

[7] Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists documents Ebner's experiences over two years spent undercover, infiltrating far-right networks such as Generation Identity[2][8] and Reconquista Germanica,[8] both on-line and in person.

It is based on investigative reporting and interviews and asks why extremist ideas and concepts increasingly enter mainstream politics and societal discourse.