Javier López Guzmán

Javier López Guzmán is a Research fellow at University of Alicante. He is a qualified lawyer, enrolled in the Spanish Bar, and a PhD candidate in Law. He is a member of the Private International Law Department of University of Alicante. He participates in a number of research initiatives at UA, as a member of the Global Innovation Law and Policy research group, and as a researcher for the Chair for the Responsible Development of the Metaverse. His doctoral research examines the territorial scope of application of European Union digital regulation, with particular focus on the GDPR, the Artificial Intelligence Act and other instruments of the EU digital acquis.

His professional experience has focused on privacy, data protection and technology regulation. He has worked in the past as a legal analyst at Sopra Steria in Brussels, as a predoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and as an interim official at the Secretariat-General of the European Commission. 

He participates as a legal researcher in European R&D projects such as THEIA and PRISM, funded under Horizon Europe, working on regulatory compliance, ethics, privacy and data protection. His publications address, among other topics, privacy in the metaverse, international data transfers, the Brussels Effect and the extraterritorial application of European digital regulation.