Virginia Franqueira

Dr Virginia Franqueira is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in cyber security at the University of Kent (UK), Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). She is the director of Kent’s Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education, Gold Award 2023-2028 (recognised by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of the GCHQ). She has around 70 publications and her research interests include digital forensics and incident response (e.g., use of concepts from structured argumentation to expose logical inferences in digital forensics practice and organisations’ learning process after cyber incidents), studies related to cybercrime and interpersonal crimes (e.g., child sexual abuse and exploitation, cyberstalking and domestic abuse), and pre-university cyber security education. She was nominated as a member of the EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) – Technical Area Committee on BForSec (Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security), tenure 2023-2025.