Lucas de Melo Melgaço

Lucas Melgaço is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium, where he teaches the courses Crime and the City, Policing and Surveillance, and Criminological Encounters to masters students in criminology and in urban studies. Lucas holds a bachelors degree in Geography from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, a masters degree in Human Geography from the Universidade de São Paulo - USP, and a PhD in Human Geography from USP and the Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne (joint-PhD), with a thesis titled: Urban Securitization: from the psychosphere of fear to the technosphere of security. He has completed postdoctoral research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (criminology), Queens University, Canada (sociology), and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (geography). Lucas coordinates the project Gatherings: Balancing Security, Privacy and Cost, funded by the European Commission. His main areas of interest are urban criminology, public spaces, public security, urban violence, surveillance, social movements, protests, new information and communication technologies, and the epistemology of Geography. Lucas is also dedicated to translating and presenting the theory of Brazilian geographer Milton Santos to the English-speaking world. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Criminological Encounters. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)