Jonathan D. Teubner has served in a number of leadership capacities in academia, business, and non-profits and has pioneered the application of machine learning to improving peace building methods. Teubner is a permanent research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. For the academic years 2021-2024, Teubner has led Social Connectedness Research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Previously, Teubner was the Associate Director of the Initiative on Religion, Politics and Conflict at the University of Virginia, where he led a collaborative team of data scientists and scholars across the social sciences to develop natural language processing tools. His publications have focused on religion and conflict, technology and society, European politics, and themes in the history of Christian thought and practice. Outside of academia, Teubner is the Founder of FilterLabs.AI, a data analytics company that specializes in tracking the impact of global propaganda on local communities and, from 2016-2019 served as the Director of Global Covenant Partners, an NGO focused on reducing and preventing religion-related violence. Teubner is regularly quoted in The New York Times and The Hill has been interviewed by BBC, The Economist, CNN, and NBC Nightly News. Teubner has a Master’s degree from Yale, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and has held fellowships at Harvard, Yale, Sorbonne, and the Humboldt University in Berlin.