Serdar San is a PhD candidate in criminology at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies of the University of Toronto. After graduating from the Turkish National Police Academy in 2006, he worked in different units of the Turkish National Police mainly on terrorism, counterterrorism and international police and security co-operation issues. His research interests include policing of terrorism, countering violent extremism (CVE) policy and practice, deradicalization/disengagement from terrorist activity, policing following political transitions, democratic policing, and authoritarianism. His research on the potential contribution of CVE programs to counterterrorism policing through a case study of a pilot Turkish CVE project in the city of Adana has been recently published in Policing and Society. Serdar is also a Scholar-at-Risk fellow at the Massey College in the University of Toronto. His Twitter profile name is @SerdarSan20.