Brandon Prins is Professor and Head of Political Science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His research focuses on political violence, maritime crime and conflict, and research methods. He is the co-author of Pirate Lands: Governance and Maritime Piracy published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Sambuddha Ghatak is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University and SDSU Imperial Valley, California. His research focuses on conflict, political violence, and terrorism.

Anup Phayal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public and International Affairs, University of North Carolina Wilmington. His research focuses on conflict, terrorism, and maritime security.

Hongyu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of North Carolina Wilmington. His research focuses on international relations and security, nuclear proliferation and deterrence, and global terrorism.

Averie Linnel is an Industrial and Organisational Psychology PhD student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research interests include conventional and malevolent creativity. 

Twitter: @AverieLinnell

Austin C Doctor is the director of counter-terrorism research initiatives at the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center, a Department of Homeland Security Centre of Excellence, and a political scientist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has served as a non-resident fellow with the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point as well as the National Strategic Research Institute, a Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Center. He earned his PhD at the University of Georgia.