Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri is an Associate Professor of Law & Technology and a Board Member at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies.

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Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri is an Associate Professor of Law & Technology and a Board Member at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies. He serves as the Honorary Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, Free University of Brussels (VUB) and as the Managing Editor of Computer Law and Security Review, an External Ethics Expert of the European Commission. He leads the RESOCIAL Project (funded by NWO and ZonMw), an interdisciplinary project on social media vulnerability and resilience.

He also coordinates VULNERA, the International Observatory of Vulnerability in Data Protection. His field of research and teaching is digital rights, digital vulnerability, digital wellbeing, data protection law, privacy, AI regulation, AI explainability rights, and consumer protection in the digital market.

Gianclaudio has authored more than 100 publications, including the book "Vulnerability and Data Protection Law" (Oxford University Press, 2023) and articles in leading international academic journals, and he is the Co-Rapporteur for the American Law Institute - European Law Institute Principles on Biometrics.  His works have been cited by, inter alia, top international newspapers (The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, Politico, La Tribune, France Culture, ilSole24Ore, la Repubblica, il Corriere della Sera, Euractiv, the EU Observer) but also institutions, e.g. the European Commission and the Council of Europe, and the Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice.  In 2020, he was the only EU scholar to receive the FPF Privacy for Policymaker Paper Award. He has published in English, Italian, Dutch, and French, and some of his works have been translated into Chinese. In 2024, he received the AI Policy Leader Award (scholar section).

He was awarded a PhD in Law at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He got an LLM with honours from the University of Pisa (2016) and a JD with honours from the S.Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (2017). He was a visiting student at the London School of Economics (2013), the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern (2014), École Normale Supérieure de Paris (2015) and Oxford University (2018).