About
My current role is Visiting Scholar, as a member of the Law and Technology Research Centre. I contribute to the Data Protection module.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Data Protection
- Data Governance
- Platform Regulation
- AI Regulation
- Protection of Fundamental Rights
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Previously taught IT law and Data Protection Modules
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon is Professor in IT law at VUB, Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, and Principal Legal Engineer at Immuta Research. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton Law School of law, where she held the chair in IT law and Data Governance until 2022.
Sophie is the author and co-author of several legal articles, chapters and books on platform regulation, data protection and privacy and other IT law-related topics. Sophie has led the legal effort of many interdisciplinary research projects, including EU FP7, Horizon 2020, and UK EPRC-funded research projects covering regulation of digital identify schemes, data sharing, anonymisation and pseudonymisation-related requirements and practices, and value-by-design approaches to system design, such as trustworthiness, data protection and explainability by design.
Sophie is Editor-in-chief of the Computer Law and Security Review, a leading international journal of technology law, and has also served as a legal and data privacy expert for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for the Cooperation and Security in Europe, and for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Prizes
- Best paper prize, ACM Web Science Conference 2016 (2016)