Mauro Lubrano is a Lecturer in International Relations & Politics within the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at the University of Bath. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include political violence and terrorism, innovation processes in violent non-state actors, anti-technology extremism, and insurrectionary anarchism and left-wing extremism.

Lisa Sugiura is Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, and a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her research projects, which include funding from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Home Office, involve the language of cybersexism, victims of computer misuse, technology-facilitated domestic abuse, and extremist and misogynistic behaviours in manosphere and incel communities. 

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel (she/her) is a Postdoc researcher at the University of Bern and a research fellow with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her work focuses on the role of gender in political violence regarding radicalization processes in online male supremacist and far-right communities and transnational de- and counter-radicalization policy-making. She has published a co-edited Special Issue collection on gender and P/CVE in Critical Studies on Terrorism. 

Megan Kelly (she/her) is a doctoral student in Gender Studies at the University of Basel and a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her research interests include identity formation and (de)radicalization processes in online supremacist and far-right movements and responses to these movements. 

Her work appears in Critical Studies on Terrorism, The Public Eye, and in the edited collection Male Supremacism in the United States. 

Elena Akers is a researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include radicalisation, domestic extremism, social movements, and propaganda.

Michael A. Jensen is a senior researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland where he leads the centre’s team on extremism in the United States. He is the principal investigator of the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project. His work examines the processes of radicalisation, disengagement from extremism, and patterns of terrorism and targeted violence in the United States.

Dr. Marcus A. Boyd is an Associate Research Scientist and Director of Graduate Studies of the Security and Terrorism Studies programs at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has conducted research on terrorist finance, sanctions, drug trafficking organisations, and most recently, climate security. He has been at START for 10 years. Prior to that he served in various positions supporting the US Intelligence and  Defence Communities.