Marlon Toro-Alvarez, Ph.D.

 

Marlon Toro-Alvarez, Ph.D., has been named an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Cybersecurity and Sociology. He was previously an evaluator and analyst in cybersecurity and law enforcement training at Boston University, where he was part of a team on several research grant projects. As former head of the National Cybercrime Investigation Unit in the Colombian National Police, he organized the first White Hat Hackers Conference in Bogotá. He has been an instructor at Southern Illinois University and has been a guest lecturer at schools, police academies and criminology and cybercrime centers in South America and Mexico. He earned a bachelor’s degree in police administration from the Department of Police Service, Colombia, a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from Catholic University, Colombia, a master’s degree in criminal justice from Boston University and a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from Southern Illinois University.

 

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