Hacer Aker graduated from Selcuk University, Faculty of Communication Radio, Television and Cinema Department. She completed her Master’s Degree in the Social Sciences Institute of the same university in 2010. She worked in different positions in various media organizations till 2012. Later she was appointed as a research assistant in 2013. She completed her Phd at the aforementioned department at Selcuk University. Since 2020, she continues work at Selcuk University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema as a Assistant Professor. Her academic research interests include new communication technologies, film studies, politic cinema, cultural policies, philosophy, poverty and comedy besides communication studies.
Mary Aiken is a Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology in the Department of Law and Criminology at the University of East London. She is a Professor of Cyberpsychology and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology at Washington D.C.'s premier STEM University, Capitol Technology University, and Adjunct Professor at the Geary Institute for Public Policy University College Dublin. She is a member of the INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Expert Group and Academic Advisor to Europol's European Cyber Crime Center (EC3), Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, member of Medico-Legal Society, International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA), Fellow of the Society for Chartered I.T. Professionals, and International Global Fellow at the Washington DC Wilson Center. Professor Aiken has an M.Sc in Cyberpsychology & a PhD in Forensic Cyberpsychology; her research interests include SafetyTech, Online Harms, Cyberchondria, A.I., Fintech, human factors in cybersecurity, organized cybercrime, online behavioural profiling, Internet psychology & youth protection online. She engages in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour and has published and spoken internationally on this topic. A published, peer-reviewed author, Professor Aiken, has been featured by CBS, BBC, New York Post, Newsweek, NPR, Inside Edition, Scientific American, Variety, the Atlantic, Washington Post, WSJ, New York Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Hollywood Reporter and Time Magazine.