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Find out more about the speakers at the 15th International Crime Science Conference.
Plenary speakers, panel members and chairs
- Prof Kate Bowers - UCL Security & Crime Science
Kate Bowers is the current Head of Department of the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science.
Kate has worked in the field of crime science for almost 30 years, with research interests focusing on the use of quantitative methods and data analytics in crime analysis and crime prevention. Her most recent interests are predictive policing, big data approaches and the use of innovative data and data science approaches in understanding crime trends.
- Prof Noemie Bouhana - UCL Security & Crime Science
Noemie Bouhana is Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at UCL, where she co-leads the Counter-Terrorism Research Group.
Her work is concerned with the processes involved in the emergence of extremist social ecologies in complex social systems and the mechanisms which underpin individual vulnerability to extremism. She has directed the €2.9M EU FP7 PRIME project, an international consortium of six European universities working on the prevention and mitigation of lone actor radicalisation and attack behaviour, and the $1M project "The Social Ecology of Radicalisation", sponsored by the US DoD Minerva Initiative.
Currently, she is funded by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) to develop an environmental extremism risk analysis framework for use by Prevent practitioners. Previous work has been supported by DStl, OSCT, the MoD Counter-Terrorism Science and Technology Centre, EPSRC, and the US National Institute of Justice.
- Prof Shane Johnson - UCL Security & Crime Science
Shane Johnson is a Professor of Future Crime. He directs the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL and co-directs the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity at UCL.
He has published over 150 articles, has a Chief Constable's commendation for his work on what works to reduce crime, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory boards of the UK Home Office and the Max Planck Institute.
Parallel sessions speakers
- Ardi Janjeva - Alan Turing Institute
Ardi Janjeva is a Research Associate at the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS).
His research interests are divided into three main areas: artificial intelligence innovation and disruption, intelligence tradecraft and investigatory powers, and emerging technology, political economy and strategy.
He has worked closely with national and international partners across government, academia, civil society and the private sector on these topics, producing research which has been cited in academic journals and mainstream media outlets such as the Financial Times and the BBC.
- Daniel Jolley - University of Nottingham
Dr Daniel Jolley is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham.
He leads a research programme that explores the intriguing realm of conspiracy theory psychology, seeking to uncover the reasons behind their widespread appeal.
His work has also focused on understanding how and when conspiracy beliefs could be associated with violent extremism. His work has been funded by bodies such as The Leverhulme Trust and The British Academy.
Passionate about science communication, he has appeared on TV (e.g., BBC One Show), radio (e.g., BBC Radio Scotland), and print (e.g., New York Times), and has given many invited public talks (e.g., New Scientist Live).
- Detective Inspector Andy Marsh - Thames Valley Police
Detective Inspector Andy Marsh has been a police officer for 27 years, with a background in complex investigations such as fraud and money laundering, but has now been working in the Child Sexual Abuse arena for the last 15 years.
His investigative experience spans Force, Regional, National and International operations. He now leads the national Online CSA Covert Intelligence Team. His team report on new and emerging offender behaviours and, for the last 18 months, have been monitoring offender misuse of new technologies, such as generative AI and Extended Reality. This experience not only assists law enforcement but helps advise government policy.
The speed of adoption of new technologies by CSA offenders is startling and through the work of his team in countering child sexual abuse, Andy has come to be a police adviser to different crime types; whose suspects also seek to misuse these modern technologies.
- Ema Mauko - UCL Security & Crime Science
Ema is currently a Doctoral Student in the Center for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity where her research focuses on the investigation of Cybercrime as a Service.
She holds an undergraduate degree in Security and Crime Science from UCL and a master’s degree in Security and Resilience: Science and Technology from Imperial College London.
Her research interests are very diverse, but she is most interested in emerging (technology) threats and their impact from a socio-technical perspective as well as the evolution of the more traditional crimes to today’s world. Ema has been a research intern at the Police Foundation for the past 9 months where she was mostly involved in the online fraud project.
- Dr Janice Goldstraw-White - Perpetuity Research
Janice is a criminologist and the lead researcher for economic crime at Perpetuity Research.
With more than 20 years’ prior experience as an accountant, mainly in the public sector, she has expertise in the areas of governance, risk management, security and audit. She is particularly interested in economic crime, crime in the workplace and fraudster behaviour. She has extensively researched these areas both here and in Australia, with a focus on offender accounts of fraudsters. She has particular experience in interviewing within prisons and has undertaken over fifty interviews with incarcerated white-collar offenders.
At Perpetuity, she manages and delivers on a range of projects including research on tackling fraud in local authorities; whether the reporting of fraud in the UK should be compulsory; fraud in the Middle East; the problems of using digital evidence; and improving the police response to victims of fraud and scams. Janice has published a number of articles and co-authored chapters in books on workplace crime and the motives of white-collar criminals. Her own book entitled ‘White-Collar Crime: Accounts of Offending Behaviour’ was published in 2011.
- Dr Kacper Gradon - Warsaw University of Technology
Kacper Gradon, Ph.D., D.Sc. is an Associate Professor in Cybersecurity (Warsaw University of Technology), Honorary Associate Professor at University College London Department of Security and Crime Science and a Visiting Fulbright Professor and Faculty Affiliate at University of Colorado Boulder. He is also the World Health Organization Global Infodemic Manager, Fulbright Senior Award Scholar and the recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship.
His area of expertise is disinformation, hybrid and information warfare, GAI-applications in security, human-centric dimensions of cybersecurity and Future Crimes. He has been frequent consultant of law enforcement agencies and intelligence institutions worldwide. He presented at over 200 conferences on all continents and is a triple TED(x) speaker. He lectured at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), University of Southern California, University of Greenwich, Memorial University of Newfoundland and at law-enforcement academies, such as the Portland Police Department Training Division and Indian National Police Academy in Hyderabad.
- Kimberley Ton-Mai - UCL Security & Crime Science
Kimberly Ton-Mai is a PhD researcher at University College London and a Principal Technology Adviser at the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Her recent work on how humans cannot reliably detect speech deepfakes was featured in international news outlets including the BBC, New Scientist, and The Guardian. Kimberly holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree in data science and machine learning from University College London. Her research interests include machine learning, security science, and AI policy.
- Prof Lewis Griffin - UCL Computer Science
Prof Lewis Griffin is a Professor of Computer Science and Departmental Tutor at UCL. His research is in Computer & Human Vision, AI & Security.
- Dr Lorenzo Pasculli - UCL Security & Crime Science
Lorenzo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Security and Crime Science at UCL and Deputy Director of the UCL Dawes Centre for Future Crime. He is also Visiting Professor at Nebrija University Madrid.
Lorenzo's research focuses on the legal frameworks developed to counter criminal threats emerging from social and technological changes, such as globalisation, climate change or digital technologies. His approach mixes traditional doctrinal analysis with socio-legal and criminological analysis of the law.
Before joining UCL, Lorenzo was the Associate Head for Research of Coventry Law School and a Sessional Lecturer in Law at Imperial College London.
- Dr Manja Nikolovska - UCL Security & Crime Science
Dr. Manja Nikolovska is a Research Fellow at the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL.
Her research focuses on how technological and social change can affect the future of crime. Her background is in Information Systems Science and Criminal law. Recent work includes making meaning out of social media data for future fraud prevention; examining cyber security behaviours and routine activities during disruption, deriving insights from policing during social disruptions in anticipating future threats and the evolution of cyber grooming of children.
Working closely with law enforcement and practitioners in the field drives her work with grounding that in practice, (cyber)crime prevention is “what works” to reduce it. Therefore, she attempts to approach future crime anticipation and prevention with theoretical and conceptual shapeshifting among research practices and fields that answer to crime reduction viability in practice.
- Manon Roberts - Crest Advisory
Manon is a Senior Manager who has a range of experience managing projects for Crest Advisory, Public Health Wales and the Wales Centre for Public Policy, covering diverse topics such as health and housing, poverty and social exclusion and children of prisoners. Manon is experienced in both primary and secondary large scale qualitative research, using such skills to produce a range of types of research findings and outputs.
- Mark Button - University of Porthsmouth
Mark Button is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth. He was founder and Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies 2010-2022.
Mark has written extensively on counter fraud, cyber-fraud and private policing issues, publishing many articles, chapters and completing eleven books, including Economic Crime: From Conception to Response; Private Policing and Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims.
Some of the most significant research projects include projects for EPSRC, ESRC, Home Office, National Fraud Authority, Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, Cifas and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office to name some. Mark has also worked on the Government’s Annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey and the pilot Economic Crime Survey. Mark completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, his Masters at the University of Warwick and his Doctorate at the London School of Economics.
- Prof Martin Gill - Perpetuity Research
Professor Martin Gill is a criminologist and Director of Perpetuity Research which started life as a spin out company from the University of Leicester. He holds honorary/visiting Chairs at the Universities of Leicester and London.
Martin has been actively involved in a range of studies relating to different aspects of security, private policing and business crime on topics including: organised crime and fraud; why offenders offend; the (in)effectiveness of different security measures; and the scope of security management. Martin has been extensively involved with evaluation research and with the offender’s perspective looking at how they target certain people and premises and aim to circumvent security measures.
He has published 15 books including the third edition of the 'Handbook' of Security' which was published in 2022. He is the organiser and Chair of the Security Thought Leadership webinar series. In 2022 he was recognised by Security Magazine as one of the ‘Most Influential People in Security’ and also received the Mervyn David Award from the ASIS UK Chapter ‘for his significant contribution to the security profession’.
Martin is the Founder of the Outstanding Security Performance Awards (the OSPAs and Cyber OSPAs); the Tackling Economic Crime Awards (the TECAs); and the Security and Safety Entrepreneurial Awards (The SSEAs).
- Sarah Zheng - UCL Security & Crime Science
Sarah Ying Zheng's PhD shed light on why people fall for online scams and developed nonvel approaches to protect people from phishing e-mail scams.
She uses her multidisciplinary background in psychology, neuroscience and applied machine learning from several years in industry to drive innovation in usable security research. Her work has been published in international conferences and academic journals.
- Sophie Davies - Crest Advisory
Sophie is Director of Research Advisory and has joined Crest Advisory from her role as Head of Home Affairs at the Behavioural Insights Team. Before that, Sophie worked as a Political Advisor to Rt Hon Lord Falconer, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice.
At Crest, Sophie leads our in-house think tank, Crest Insights. Sophie has a wealth of experience leading on projects in the home affairs and justice areas, working with government departments, police forces and senior officials in the criminal justice sector and utilising her knowledge of home affairs to influence policy-making. Sophie is leading Crest’s Dawes Trust-funded project on online fraud and has given evidence gathered from the project to the Home Affairs Select Committee as part of their inquiry into fraud.