Inês Sousa Guedes is the Director of the School of Criminology since 2025 and she is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology (Undergraduate and Master programmes), Faculty of Law, University of Porto (UP), where she began her academic career as a teaching monitor while completing her degree in Criminology (2010). She holds a PhD in Criminology (2017) from the University of Porto, focused on fear of crime, using mixed methods research (surveys, experimental and qualitative methods), which provided her with extensive experience in scientific research. She is an integrated member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice (CIJ) at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto, and a collaborator member of CEJEIA (University of Lusiada). Since 2009, she has participated in several national and international research projects developed at the School of Criminology. Among these, she was a researcher in the project "Risk for misconduct in entrepreneurship: developing a risk assessment and guideline program for incubators" funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, PTDC/DIR-DCP/30912/2017), and in the project "Measuring fear of crime using app-based and sensing methodologies" funded by the British Academy, which tested the feasibility of mobile app-based measures to operationalize fear of crime. She was also the Principal Investigator (PI) of two projects on disinformation (2023), both funded by Cardiff University. Currently, she is the PI of two research projects: FACTCHECK, funded by the Social Observatory Research Call - Fundação La Caixa, focusing on disinformation, and VicTory in FDUP (funded by the European Commission). Her recent research has been largely dedicated to cybercrime, particularly topics such as hacking, online identity theft, online consumer fraud, online grooming, and phishing. In the area of fear of crime, her research has explored the relationship between physical spaces and fear, using different methodological approaches. More recently, she has been exploring the susceptibility and dissemination of fake news. She is responsible for teaching Cybercrime and Security-related topics in the Criminology course and is the author of the book Cybercrime: new challenges, offences and solutions (PACTOR Publisher, 2021). She has published more than 50 papers and book chapters in the areas of fear of crime, crime perceptions, security, white-collar crime, cybercrime, and disinformation. She is a member of the Board of the Criminology Undergraduate Programme, Vice-President of the Pedagogical Council, and member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, which has allowed her to develop important management and leadership skills. She has given almost 50 oral presentations at national and international scientific events (e.g., European Society of Criminology Conference, Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Cybercrime Online Conference by the American Society of Criminology's Division on Cybercrime, Human Factor in Cybercrime Conference), many of them as an invited speaker. She is a member of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Working Group on Cybercrime. She has been supervising and co-supervising master's and doctoral theses since 2017, particularly on topics related to cybercrime (online fraud, cyberstalking, fear of cybercrime, online identity theft), fear of crime, insecurity, and disinformation, using diverse methodological approaches.