Lucas Melgaço

Lucas Melgaço is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He coordinates several projects including the project "Gatherings: Common Standards for Security, Privacy and Cost of Surveillance of Public Gatherings" (gatherings-project.eu) financed by the European Commission. He has a PhD in Social Geography from the University of São Paulo and the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and is a former post-doctoral fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His main scientific interests are in the domains of urban criminology, surveillance, policing, public order, social movements and protests, and the relationships between information and communication technologies, space and security. He has also worked on translating and introducing the theories of the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos to the English-speaking community. Lucas is co-editor of the books "Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance" (Routledge, 2018), "Milton Santos: A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South"(Springer, 2017) and "Order and Conflict in Public Space" (Routledge, 2016). He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Criminological Encounters.

Current teaching: Policing and Surveillance;  Crime and the City; Criminological Encounters

Previous education: Bachelor of Arts in Geography; Teacher Training Degree in Geography; Master in Human Geography; Doctor in Social Geography