More about Dr Mary Aiken
Dr Mary Aiken is the world’s leading expert in Cyberpsychology – the study of the impact of technology on human behaviour. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at University College Dublin and the Academic Advisor (Psychology) to the European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) at Europol, and member of the EC3 Academic Advisory Board. She is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, a leading US think tank, a lecturer in Criminology and Fellow at the School of Law, Middlesex University, Fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals, and has served as Distinguished Prof. of the Practice of Cyber Analytics at AIRS, and Sensemaking Fellow at IBM Network Science RC.
Her numerous research areas include; organised cybercrime, cybersecurity, cyber behavioural profiling, technology facilitated human trafficking, cyberchondria, Artificial Intelligence, cyber ethics, child welfare in cyberspace, personal cyber security and safety. She is recognised as an expert at national and European level in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2013 She co-led a White House research team focused on “Tackling Technology Facilitated Human Trafficking” and was appointed by the Department of Communications to the Internet Content Governance Advisory Group. She is a spokesperson and expert contributor to the European Commission’s Safer Internet Day and an Observer to the INTERPOL Specialists Group.
She recently spoke at the Interpol World Conference in Singapore.
In 2016 Mary was named as one of the Top 50 Most Inspiring Women in Technology in Europe. In 2017, Dr Mary Aiken was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame, in recognition of her contribution to the information and cybersecurity sectors.
Her book, The Cyber Effect has now been translated into Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean German and Arabic.