Professor Petra Saskia Bayerl

Head of Research

Petra Saskia Bayerl was Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence on Public Safety Management (CESAM) at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands) as well as Associate Dean of Diversity at the same institution. She holds a masters degree in psychology, linguistics and organizational dynamics from universities in Germany and the USA and gained her PhD from Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (Netherlands). 

Her research addresses societal implications of emerging technologies and practices in the security domain and has appeared in numerous international journals, conferences and books. She has extensive experience in security-related EU-funded projects, both as researcher and as advisory board members and member of ethics committees, in a broad range of topics from radicalization and counter-terrorism to community policing and the management of crises.

Publications

  • Bayerl, P. S., & Akhgar, B. (). Surveillance and falsification implications for open source intelligence investigations. Communications of the ACM, 58(8), 62-69.
  • Jacobs, G., & Bayerl, P. S. (). Accounting for cultural influences in big data analytics. In: Application of Big Data for National Security. (pp. 250-260). Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • Bayerl, P. S., & Akhgar, B. (). Online surveillance awareness as impact on data validity for open-source intelligence?. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 15-20). Springer, Cham.
  • Bayerl, P.S., Horton, K.E., Jacobs, G., Rogiest, S., Reguli, Z., Gruschinske, M., Costanzo, P., Stojanovski, T., Vonas, G., Gasco, M., & Elliott, K. (). Perspectives on the police profession: an international investigation. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 37 (4), 728-745.
  • Bayerl, P. S., Akhgar, B., Brewster, B., Domdouzis, K., & Gibson, H. (). Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications. In: Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigator's Handbook. (pp. 197-220).