Academic interests
- War and Conflict
- Ideology
- State- and Nation building
- International Relations
- Remote Sensing
Background
- Postdoc, University of Oslo. Affiliated with the Waging of War (WOW) project (2026-)
- Postdoc, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2025-2026)
- Postdoc, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs. Harvard Kennedy School (2024-2025)
Education
- DPhil (PHD) International Relations, University of Oxford, New College.
Publications
Monograph
In Progress. Islamist Civil Wars: Tragedies of Modernity.
Articles
- Sticher, Valerie, Corinne Bara, Jenniina Kotajoki, Lars Bromley, Thierry Crevoisier, Emanuele Dalsasso, Olivier Dietrich, Karsten Donnay, Filip Dorm, Manuel Fiol, Xi Li, Mikael Hiberg Naghizadeh, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Konrad Schindler, Devis Tuia, Jan Dirk Wegner. 2026. “Advancing conflict research and response through satellite-derived data,” Nature.
- Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg, Seung Hoon Chae, 2026. “Patterns of Indirect Violence in Conventional War: Territorial Contestation and Civilian Casualties During the War in Ukraine,” International Studies Quarterly, 70 (3), 1-10.
- Kalyvas, Stathis, and Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2025. "Jihadism: How and Why Militant Islamism Became the Dominant Form of Armed Revolution Globally,” Annual Review of Political Science, 28, 393-411.
- Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2025. “Why Islamism? A Micro-Institutional Approach to Explaining Ideological Choice,” Civil Wars, 27 (2), 359-387
- Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2025. “What We Don’t See: Documenting Intercommunal Violence Through Fire Data,” Political Geography, 116 (2025), 1-13.
- Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2024. “The Uses for Fire Data and Satellite Images in Monitoring, Detecting, and Documenting Collective Political Violence,” Research & Politics, 11(3), 1-10.
- Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2019. “Rivalry Through Proxies: How Iran and Saudi Arabia Compete for Regional Influence.” St Antony’s International Review 14 (2), 137-153.
- Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2016. “Sanksjoner og Irans Atomprogram. [Sanctions and Iran’s Nuclear Programme]” Babylon 2 (2016): 16-28. (In Norwegian).