Dr Mary Aiken

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Europol Spotlight: Where to draw the cyber blue line

22nd July 2021

Prof Mary Aiken, University of East London

ANALYSIS: As technology evolves, policing faces new challenges protecting the rule of law and victims online, while serving the online community; in Europol’s latest Spotlight position paper, Dr Mary Aiken, Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology at the University of East London, and Dr Philipp Amann, Head of Expertise & Stakeholder Management at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, explore these key challenges, and consider the question of where to draw the cyber blue line.

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Dr Mary Aiken
Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology

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Professor Mary Aiken is a world-leading expert in Cyberpsychology – the study of the impact of technology on human behaviour. She is a Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology at the University of East London and an Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. Professor Aiken is a Member of the INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Expert Group and an Academic Advisor to Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Global Fellow at the Washington DC Wilson Center, member of the Medico-Legal Society, International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals. An active policy campaigner who regularly appears on radio and television, she is an established subject matter expert speaker on the tech conference circuit. A published, peer-reviewed author, her work as a Cyberpsychologist inspired the CBS primetime television series CSI: Cyber, and she was a producer on the show. Her book, The Cyber Effect was selected by the Times as a 2016 ‘book of the year’ in the Thought category, and was listed in the top 20 science books by Nature the International Journal of Science.