Designation: Fellow 2022/2023

Eyup Kun is a doctoral researcher in KU Leuven Center for IT and IP Law since February 2021. He is a Turkish qualified lawyer since 2019.

He conducts his doctoral research on the intersection of cybersecurity and data protection law in the digital economy in addition to his involvement in the ENSURESEC project funded by European Union Horizon 2020.

He is graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Law.  He completed his master studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (the LSE) with the specialisation of information technology, media and communications law in 2020.  During his master studies, he was involved in several projects related to the intersection between data protection and other fundamental rights. After graduating from the LSE, he worked as a trainee at the Data Protection Unit at the Council of Europe. During this assignment, he mainly worked on the guidelines on the facial recognition technologies adopted by the Council of Europe in January 2021.

Magdalena Jóźwiak works at Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels as an Associate Researcher with the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy unit. At the same time, she is a lecturer at the Law Faculty of Tilburg University (Netherlands) and a fellow at the Datasphere Initiative of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network in Paris (France).

With 10 years of experience working as a researcher and lecturer, Magdalena is an expert the fields of freedom of expression, privacy, and data protection law and jurisprudence, focusing on the human rights’ conflicts in the digital public sphere. In this area Magdalena has published academic papers and gave numerous academic presentations, including at the Stanford Law School, Sciences Po, Humboldt University, University of Copenhagen, University of Edinburgh and University of Amsterdam.

Magdalena graduated with Master of Law degree from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań) and LLM degree from Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon). She held academic positions at the VU Amsterdam and Leiden University and prior to joining the academia she worked as a lawyer in Paris and as a stagiaire at the Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg), EPO (Munich) and OECD (Paris).

Ángel Gordo is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology IV (Research Methods and Communication Theory) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid(2002-present). 

He is co‑director, of Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, (foundational) member of Cibersomosaguas Research Group and member of the Discourse Unit.

Doctor in Psychology from the University of Manchester, he was a Lecturer at the University of Bradford (1994-1999) and Research Fellow in the Discourse Unit (1995-1997), a collaborative Centre which support a variety of qualitative and theoretical research projects based in Manchester (now at the University of Manchester). He has been visiting professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Universidad Central de Caracas, in Western Nepean University (Sydney), the Free University of Berlin and more recently in la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín.  He  is the founder of the research group Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales. Cibersomosaguas (2002-presente).

Ángel Gordo’s background is in social psychology, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, and a strong emphasis on advanced qualitative methodologies and research strategies allows him to combine academic rigor and methodological innovation to translate social rights and values into assessment and analysis of everyday technological issues and social relations. 

Natasha Gooden is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, where she is also a teaching assistant at the School of Law.

Natasha’s research expertise is in cyber international law and more specifically the normative challenges that face an interconnected cyber-enabled society from a conflict perspective. Her thesis focuses on questioning how effective international law is in regulating cyber operations under the Law of Armed Conflict and addresses the impact and relationship of human right protections.

Natasha obtained both her LLB and LLM in International and European Law at the University of Sheffield and also during her undergraduate degree spent a year studying abroad at Charles University in Prague.

Ann Kristin Glenster is a Senior Policy Advisor on Technology Governance and Law, University of Cambridge Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Ann Kristin’s PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge examines individuals’ right to control the commodification of their personal data online under the GDPR using algorithmic regulation. She is a graduate of Columbia University and has conducted doctoral research at Harvard Law School. Ann Kristin has taught at Harvard University, LSE, Brown University, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. 

She has recently co-authored a chapter on the AI, GDPR, and IP with Katarina Foss-Solbrekk in the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on EU Data Protection (eds. Elena Kosta and Ronald Leenes). 

She is currently advising on Technology Governance and Law at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.