Daniele-Hadi Irandoost is a doctoral researcher based at the University of Glasgow and works at the intersection of military history, intelligence, and surveillance studies. In addition to contributions to social science, he is also the author of two books on espionage in the First World War and the Cold War, a book of historical essays on diplomacy, and has written a volume on the philosophy of education, each published by Manticore Press. Grounded in his immigrant experience and historical imagination, Daniele draws on literary fiction to challenge conventional creative non-fiction. He is a qualified teacher in history. He founded and curated five TEDxLambeth events between 2019 and 2022, one of which was sponsored by the Armed Forces Day. He is a Fellow of the Society for Education and Training (FSET), a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS), and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI), and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).