Elliott Peterson is a Special Agent with the Defence Criminal Intelligence Service. He was formerly a Cybercrime investigator for the FBI. He is responsible for investigating complex botnets, high dollar account takeover fraud, and Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Elliott speaks and teaches extensively on investigative best practices for Cybercrime and Nation State computer intrusions. Prior to joining the FBI, Elliott worked in Higher Education and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Dickinson College and a master's degree in Crime Analysis from Tiffin University.

I am Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. I am the Chair of Hampshire Constabulary's Force Strategic Independent Advisory Group. This is a group made up of members of the public, community groups and organisations across Hampshire, which  reviews and challenges policing practices across the Constabulary - for example, Stop and Search, among others. In addition, the SIAG provides advice to the Chief Constable on controversial or complex policing issues. In this role I also sit on the Force’s Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy Planning Group and have contributed to the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy. I am also a member of the Force’s Domestic Abuse Oversight and Scrutiny Panel and have sat on various Gold Groups addressing issues of sexual violence and abuse. I am a Fellow of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, which brings together experts from both inside and outside of academia to analyse and expose the dangers of misogynist ideology and mobilisation. I am the Deputy Director of the Cyberawareness Clinic, a project in collaboration with Hampshire Constabulary supporting the local community to become more resilient to cyberthreats and researching the types of cybercrimes experienced. I was a Strategic Themes Research and Innovation Fellow (TRIF) for the research themes of Future and Emerging Technologies and Security and Risk, developing my interdisciplinary leadership and expertise in the area of cybercrime and gender - specifically online gender abuse and technology faciliated sexual violence. Currently I am researching misogyny online and communities and movements that propogate ideological hatred against marginalised groups