Danaja Fabcic Povse

Danaja is a doctoral researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research group and a member of the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL), as well as, of the Cyber and Data Security Lab.

Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Centre for IT & IP law at the KU Leuven, where she acted as a legal and ethical advisor in Horizon 2020 funded projects (FENTEC – Functional encryption technologies, COMPACT – Cybersecurity for public administrations, DOGANA – Advanced social engineering vulnerability assessment), and published scientific articles on data protection and cybersecurity.

She holds a LLM degree in International and European business law from KU Leuven (2017, cum laude) and a master’s degree in law from University of Ljubljana (2016, cum laude).

In her spare time, Danaja is involved with the renowned London-based NGO Statewatch as a contributor, collaborating with them on surveillance and law enforcement projects. She is also taking computer science classes and learning to program using Python and C.

Her main research interests are privacy & data protection, the interaction of technology and society, AI safety, blockchain, cryptography, fintech, cybersecurity, gender equality and discrimination.