Nava Nuraniyah is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Studies, Macquarie University. Before pursuing a PhD in International, Political, and Strategic Studies at the Australian National University, she was an analyst at the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), where she conducted extensive research on conflict and extremism in Southeast Asia. Prior to that, she was an Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her publications have appeared in academic journals such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Asia Policy, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, as well as in international media, including The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald.