Professor Mary Aiken
Research Interests and Projects
Professor Mary Aiken has a Masters of Science in Cyberpsychology and a PhD in Forensic Cyberpsychology, her research interests include; AI, Fintech, SafetyTech, Trust & Safety, human factors in cybersecurity, organised cybercrime, online behavioural profiling, Internet psychology, personal cybersecurity and safety, online harms and child protection online. She has advised at national and European level in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour.
Prof. Aiken is currently UEL co-lead on a five million euro EU Horizon 2020 research project investigating human and technical drivers of cybercrime and an Expert Advisor on online harms and online safety technologies (SafetyTech) to the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). She is also an advisor to a UK government-funded research project "The Online Safety Data Initiative" which brings together expertise from a range of government, academic, industry, and civil society stakeholders. The initiative will drive innovation in the Safety tech sector by providing companies with access to the vital data needed to develop world-class safety tools to identify and remove harmful content online.
Prof. Aiken is a Strategic Advisor to the Paladin Capital Group Cyber fund, and a Scientific Advisor to the Arm Holdings kids & tech project GenARM2Z. She is an experienced public speaker who travels the world, reaching out and engaging with international audiences. She has an active interest in researching human behaviour impacted by technology and has published and spoken internationally on this topic. Prior to returning to academic life, for a number of years Mary worked at an international board level in industry; specialising in consumer behavioural profiling, innovation methodology, organisational psychology and future thinking.
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Peace, Justice and Security – The Hague Foundation
Mary has served as a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Cyber Analytics at the Asia-Pacific Institute for Resilience & Sustainability AIRS, and Sensemaking Fellow on a White House research project at the IBM Network Science Research Centre. She is a former lecturer in Cybercriminology and Research Fellow at the School of Law, Middlesex University, has held a Research Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and is the former Director of the Royal College of Surgeons Cyberpsychology Research Centre. Mary is a member of the board of the Hague Justice Portal, and the Peace – as the author of “The Cyber Effect” she was the lead sponsor of the first Hague Peace, Justice and Security Foundation Gala, held in the Hague on the 5th September 2016. Pictured below with Gala Host Sharon Stone, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein and Europol Director Sir Robert Mark Wainwright.
Educating and Entertaining – CSI: CYBER
The CBS primetime show CSI:Cyber is inspired by Dr Mary Aikens work as a Cyberpsychologist. Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette plays a cyberpsychologist who is the head of the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division on CSI: Cyber. Mary is a Producer on the show.
Onstage with the ‘CSI: Cyber” panel as part of the CBS US press tour, California. (L-R, Front Row) Actors Charley Koontz, Hayley Kiyoko, Peter MacNicol, Patricia Arquette, James Van Der Beek and Shad Moss, (l-r back row) Producer/cyber psychologist Mary Aiken, executive producer Pam Veasey and executive producer Anthony Zuiker
On set with the legendary Anthony E. Zuiker creator and executive producer of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation shows, Patricia Arquette as Cyberpsychologist FBI Special Agent and Dr Mary Aiken.
