Natalia Menéndez González is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute (Florence).

She researches the proportionality within the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) by law enforcement authorities. She is also a teaching assistant at the School of Transnational Governance (Florence), research fellow at the Center for AI and Digital Policy, co-founder and coordinator at The Digital Public Sphere research working group and editor at the European Journal for Legal Studies and The DigiCon blog. She has participated in numerous research projects, conferences and several publications. Her other research interests include AI Ethics, especially for Natural Language Processing models.