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. Vagelis Papakonstantinou
Board Member

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
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 |
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