Florian J. Hetzel holds a BA in Political Sciences, a MA in Comparative Politics, and a MRes in Security Science. Before joining University College London (UCL), Florian was involved in analysing language patterns in party manifestos at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His main research interests are money laundering, organised crime, situational crime prevention, and terrorism financing. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Security Science at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science on the empirical analysis of the relationship between type of crime and money laundering methods. Furthermore, he is working as a research assistant for Dr Paul Gill on his CREST-funded project “Applying Criminological Paradigms to Terrorist Decision Making Regarding Security and Risk”.