Ema Mauko

Ema is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity at University College London (UCL) and a visiting researcher at Yale University in American Studies. Her research focuses on the investigation of Cybercrime as a Service, its surrounding ecosystem, and does horizon scanning on how these platforms may develop in the future. 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.

Ema’s 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. She has previously collaborated as a researcher with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, NATO, UK’s Ministry of Defence and Wavestone and most recently at the Police Foundation where she was involved in research on online fraud.