Mary Aiken

Mary Aiken, PhD is a Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology in the Department of Law and Criminology and is attached to the Institute for Connected Communities at the University of East London and Adjunct Professor at the Geary Institute for Public Policy University College Dublin, Ireland.

She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board at Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). Professor Aiken is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, Global Fellow at the Washington DC Wilson Center,  member of the Medico-Legal Society of Ireland, International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals. Her research interests include online harms, safety tech, child protection online, internet psychology, AI, human factors in cybersecurity, juvenile cyber delinquency and criminality, organised cybercrime, online behavioural profiling, personal cybersecurity and safety.