Luisa Lobato

Luisa Cruz Lobato is an adjunct professor at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI PUC-Rio) and Academic Coordinator of the PUC-Rio Digital Humanities Laboratory. She has a Masters and PhD in International Politics from the same institution, and a degree in International Relations from the University of Amazonia (Belém/PA). She conducts research in the areas of cybersecurity, algorithmic security, predictive policing and the politics of technology, focusing on topics such as the role of digital technologies in security governance, the imaginaries surrounding these technologies, their securitisation and militarisation, and their impacts on democracy, having published work on these topics in national and international journals such as the Brazilian Journal of International Politics, the Brazilian Journal of Criminal Sciences, International Affairs, the Journal of Cyber Policy and the Journal of European Public Policy.