Dr Mary Aiken is Professor of Cyberpsychology and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology at Washington D.C.’s premier STEM University, Capitol Technology University. She is a Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology in the Department of Law & Criminology, University of East London (UEL), a Member of the INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Expert Group and Academic Advisor to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3). Prof. Aiken is also an Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin Geary Institute for Public Policy, she is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA),  Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and  Fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals. She has served as a Fellow at the School of Law, Middx University, she is the former Director of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) Cyberpsychology Research Centre.

Prof. Dr Aikens work inspired the CBS series 'CSI: Cyber.' Her book 'The Cyber Effect' was a 2016 Times ‘book of the year.’ In 2017 she was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame, in recognition of her contribution to the information and cybersecurity sector. In 2019 and 2021 she was named in the top 50 women in GovTech in the Asia Pacific region and is an expert advisor to the UK gov. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) 2020 report on online safety technologies (SafetyTech). Her research interests include Safety Tech, Online Harms, AI, Fintech, HealthTech, human factors in cybersecurity, organized cybercrime, online behavioural profiling, Internet psychology & youth protection online. She has advised at international and European level in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour and has published and spoken worldwide on this topic. Prof. Dr Aiken recently co-authored a Europol position paper on the social impact of cybercrime titled "The Cyber Blue Line."