Members

Meet the team

The Brussels Privacy Hub Team

The Brussels Privacy Hub Team consists of academics with a deep level of understanding of data protection law and policy-making, and extensive contacts with the institutions in the EU and beyond.

The Brussels Privacy Hub is coordinated by the two Co-Directors, who are supported in their tasks by the Executive Team.

The academic activities of the Hub are conducted by the Co-Directors and the Academic Fellows, with the strategic vision and support of the Board of Directors.

Besides the extensive network amongst the EU institutions, NGOs and other academic institutions represented in our Board of Advisors, the Brussels Privacy Hub can count on the expertise of its former Members.

 

Executive Co-Directors

The Co-Directors coordinate the workings of the Brussels Privacy Hub. They are in charge of the relationships with external partners and are responsible for the academic activities of the Hub.

Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri

Executive Co-Director

Prof. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon

Executive Co-Director

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors consists of several professors from the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Group at the Law and Criminology Faculty  of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the institutional home of the Brussels Privacy Hub. The Board of Directors sets the strategy of the Hub and are involved in setting the research focus.

Prof. Paul De Hert

Board Member

Honorary Co-Director

Prof. Paul Quinn

Board Member

Fellows

The Fellows of the Brussels Privacy Hub are senior and junior researchers organizing and producing the academic activities and output of the Brussels Privacy Hub.

Dr. Monika Zalnieriute

Senior Fellow

AI and Courts

Dr. Dongshu Zhou

Senior Fellow

Data Transfers

Bárbara da Rosa Lazarotto

Fellow

Data Governance

Pablo Trigo Kramcsák

Fellow

AI and Data Protection

Michaël Van den Poel

Fellow

Data Protection in Legal Practice

Alessandro Ortalda

Fellow

Digital ID

Vincenzo Tiani

Fellow

AI, Deepfakes and Biometric Data

Liubomir Nikiforov

Fellow

Group Privacy and AI Safety

Executive Team

The Executive Team of the Brussels Privacy Hub is tasked with the day-to-day management of events and social media management.

Michaël Van den Poel

Managing Director

Bárbara da Rosa Lazarotto

Summer and Winter Academy

Vincenzo Tiani

External Relations

Michaël Valère Thomas

Student Assistant

Brussels Privacy Hub Alumni

Over the 10 years of its existence, the Brussels Privacy Hub team has consisted of a broad range of researchers. In addition, we have hosted a diverse set of visiting scholars.
They are featured here.

Honorary Co-Directors

Prof. Christopher Kuner

Prof. Paul De Hert

Former Managing Directors

Dr. Amy Weatherburn

Prof. Dr. Laura Dreschler

Alessandra Calvi

Muhammed Demircan

Alessandro Ortalda

 

Former Fellows

 

Prof. Hielke Hijmans

Dr. Juraj Sajfert

Dr. Lina Jasmontaite

Dr. Andrés Chomczyk Penedo

Dr. Mistale Taylor

Olga Gkotsopoulou

Michalina Nadolna Peeters

Niko Tsakalakis

 

 

Former Visiting Researchers

 

Dr. Hiroshi Miyashita

Dr. Vinícius Borges Fortes

Prof. Haksoo Ko

Francesca di Matteo

Prof. Graham Greenleaf

Anbar Jayadi

Dr. Monique Mann

Prof. Meg Leta Jones

Timothy Kariotis

Jonas Botta

Prof. Jungnyum Lee

Dr. Alberto Miglio

Dr. Sebastian Theß