Vasileios Karagiannopoulos | Co-Director, Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime
University of Portsmouth

Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos is a law and cybercrime scholar and cyber‑security specialist with degrees in law from Athens and advanced degrees in IT law and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde. Since 2014 he has taught at the University of Portsmouth, where he is now an Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, co‑director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime and founder of the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic, having also designed and led the university’s BSc in Criminology and Cybercrime. His research and teaching span information‑technology law, cybercrime, cyber‑awareness education, political hacking and AI and security and he often speaks at national and international events on relevant topics. Vasileios has published extensively and has led his clinic to win the National Cyber Award for Cyberawareness in 2020 and a High Commendation in 2022 and was named Privacy Leader of the Year in academia at the 2022 PICCASO Awards.