Cyberpsychologist Dr. Mary Aiken is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology at Capitol Technology University, Washington, D.C. She is also a Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology in the Department of Law & Criminology at the University of East London (UEL). Prof. Aiken is a member of the INTERPOL Global... Read more
Cyberpsychologist Dr. Mary Aiken is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology at Capitol Technology University, Washington, D.C. She is also a Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology in the Department of Law & Criminology at the University of East London (UEL). Prof. Aiken is a member of the INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Expert Group and serves as an Academic Advisor to Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3). She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, an International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and a Fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals. She holds an M.Sc. in Cyberpsychology and a Ph.D. in Forensic Cyberpsychology.
Prof. Aiken’s work inspired the CBS series CSI: Cyber. Her book The Cyber Effect was a bestseller and named a Times ‘Book of the Year.’ In 2017, she was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame in recognition of her contributions to the information and cybersecurity sector. In 2019 and 2021, she was named among the top 50 women in GovTech in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2022, she was awarded the ‘Freedom of the City of Dublin’ for her work in cyberpsychology, online safety, and cybersecurity.
She has advised at international and European levels in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behavior, and has published and spoken worldwide on these topics. Prof. Aiken recently presented at the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Proposers Day symposium on Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND). She served as co-lead research scientist on the largest cyberpsychology-informed EU cybercrime project to date (2019–2024), which focused on Human and Technical Drivers of Cybercrime.
Prof. Mary Aiken has been featured by CBS, BBC, New York Post, Newsweek, NPR, Inside Edition, Scientific American, Variety, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Sunday Times, The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, and Time Magazine.