Contributors

Maxim Edwards was an editor at Bellingcat from 2020 to 2024. His work as a journalist has focused on central and eastern European politics, nationalism and migration. He previously worked at openDemocracy (oDR), OCCRP and GlobalVoices.

Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog. Eliot focuses on the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, and open source investigation tools and techniques.

Aric Toler was a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat from 2015 to 2023, and the organisation's first Director of Training & Research. He is currently a reporter at the New York Times.

Eoghan Macguire is lead editor at Bellingcat. He previously worked at CNN, NBC News and Storyful. Twitter: @eoghanmacguire.

Logan Williams is Bellingcat's technology officer and a senior data scientist and researcher on Bellingcat's Investigative Tech Team. He has a background in cartography, data visualisation, optics and signal processing.

Michael Sheldon is a researcher for Bellingcat. He has a background in open source research and verification on the conflict in the Donbas. Prior to joining Bellingcat, Michael worked at the DFRLab.

The Bellingcat Investigation Team is an award winning group of volunteers and full time investigators who make up the core of the Bellingcat's investigative efforts.

Ollie is a Lecturer in Geocomputation at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (@oballinger).

Christo Grozev was the Lead Russia Researcher at Bellingcat until February 2023. His investigations into the identity of the suspects in the 2018 Novichok poisonings in the UK earned him and his team the European Prize for Investigative Journalism.

Benjamin Strick is a digital investigator with a background in law, military and technology and is the Director of Investigations for the Centre for Information Resilience. He specialises in open source intelligence (OSINT), satellite imagery, influe

Christopher Giles is an open-source reporter who covers conflict, climate and online harm using remote sensing and network mapping. His work has been featured on the BBC, the Stanford Internet Observatory and CNN International.