Habil. dr Daniel Mider – political scientist, researcher, and practitioner specializing in open-source intelligence (OSINT), cybersecurity, and data analysis. Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Sociology and Political Marketing at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw; creator and instructor of the “political infobrokering” specialization; and instructor in the Cybersecurity program. He teaches courses on OSINT, computer forensics, data analysis, and research methodology.
The founder and lead instructor of the University of Warsaw’s Open University’s proprietary courses on OSINT, cyber self-defense, and cyberspace exploration. Co-creator of the course “Urban Survival—The Art of Surviving in the City,” a unique offering in the Polish academic landscape that combines threat analysis, victimology, cyber self-defense, crisis management, and preparedness for extreme situations.
He combines his academic work with 25 years of experience in the commercial research industry; he has led the implementation of over a thousand quantitative and qualitative studies. He is also active in the security sector as an expert in OSINT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics, participating in penetration tests and providing information and analytical support. As an entrepreneur, he runs his own research and consulting business at the intersection of the social sciences, security, and computer science. He is the author or co-author of six monographs and over one hundred scientific publications and expert reports.
Research Interests
Sociology of conflict and violence, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, research methodology in political science, political information intermediation, open-source intelligence, social informatics, cybersecurity, terrorism, cyberterrorism, privacy-enhancing technologies.