Vasileios Karagiannopoulos
Reader, University of Portsmouth
Vasileios is a Reader in Law and Cybercrime at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.
He is the course leader for the newly launched BSc in Criminology and Cybercrime and the Director of the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic, a project focusing on increasing cybercrime awareness and resilience and assisting the police in preventing and protecting the public in relation to cybercrime threats.
Vasileios is also a member of the Institute for Ethical AI and Machine Learning and has been a member of different ethics committees within the University of Portsmouth and the NHS. Vasileios is also involved in an EU-funded project focusing on improving counter-radicalisation practices for young people in the 2 Seas areas.
His research interests focus mainly on cybercrime and cybersecurity, policing hi-tech crime, Internet regulation, online politics and human rights in cyberspace and ethics.