aitana-radu

Aitana Radu

Security Research Coordinator, Department of Information Policy & Governance, University of Malta | Romania

Dr. Aitana Radu is the Security Research Coordinator within the Department of Information Policy & Governance at the University of Malta. Her research focuses on different aspects of security science, from violent radicalisation to intelligence oversight. After a term of service as an operational field officer in the national security sector, Dr Radu spent six years as a researcher in the field of security and intelligence studies for the ‘Mihai Viteazul’ National Intelligence Academy, in Bucharest, Romania where she led the Security Policies Research Unit before taking up a position with the University of Malta. Since 2013, Dr Radu has worked on several European-funded research projects in both the design and implementation phases, focusing mostly on radicalization in the ARMOUR and JP-COOPS projects, law enforcement practices (CITYCoP), the implementation of the European Investigation Order (SAT-LAW and PRE-RIGHTS), developing security science (ESSENTIAL) and intelligence analysis in the MIRROR and CRITERIA projects. Dr. Radu obtained her M.A. (Comparative Political Science) from the University of Bucharest with a thesis on democratic transitions in the Middle East, her M.A. in the Management of Intelligence Activities for National Security from the National Intelligence Academy in Romania with a thesis on the security risks posed by the radical Islamic discourse, and her PhD in Intelligence and National Security from the same Academy with a thesis on the transformation of intelligence organizations. More information and publications at https://www.um.edu.mt/maks/ipg/staff/aitanaradu.