Our Advisors
GLORIA GONZÁLEZ FUSTER
Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster is a Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)’s Faculty of Law and Criminology, and Co-Director of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group. She holds a research position on the theme ‘Digitalisation & a Europe of rights and freedoms’, and is the course holder of the courses ‘Privacy and data protection law‘ and ‘Bruxelles: La ville et le droit’. She is the Principal Investigator of the project ‘Articulating Law, Technology, Ethics and Politics: Issues of Enforcement and Jurisdiction of EU Data Protection Law under and beyond the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (ALTEP-DP). She is member of the Content Committee of the Privacy Camp, and of the Steering Committee of the Data Protection Law Scholars Network (DPSN). She is also a member of the European Commission’s Multistakeholder Expert Group to support the application of the GDPR.
SEDA GÜRSES
Seda Gürses is currently an FWO post-doctoral fellow at Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) in the Privacy Technologies Team at the Department of Electrical Engineering University of Leuven. Prior to that, she was a fellow at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton University, at the Media, Culture and Communications Department at NYU Steinhardt and at the Information Law Institute at NYU Law School. In her research, she studies conceptions of privacy, requirements and software engineering, optimization systems and algorithmic discrimination. After many years of collaboration, she finally became a member of the feminist artist collective Constant VZW.
JO PIERSON
Jo Pierson is full-time Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium (Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences & Solvay Business School). He is part of the research centre SMIT (Studies on Media, Innovation and Technology) since 1996 and holds a PhD in Social Science since 2003. In the past he has worked as researcher-advisor for the Dutch knowledge institute TNO in Delft. In his current position as senior researcher and executive committee member in SMIT, he is in charge of the research unit 'Privacy, Ethics & Literacy’, in close cooperation with imec (R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology). He lectures undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Hasselt University and University of Amsterdam, covering socio-technical issues of digital media development and use. Drawing upon media and communication studies, in combination with science and technology studies, his interdisciplinary research focus is on data, trust, privacy, public values and user empowerment in media technologies. He is also elected member of the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
MARLEEN WYNANTS
Marleen Wynants has a MA in English philology and a M.A. in Social Studies, KULeuven. She started out at the official Belgian Radio & Television in its pre-commercial stae. While continuing as a freelance journalist on music, art and gender, she ran the post-punk magazine Fabiola together with Jan Vanroelen, both leaving the scene in 1988, the year Hillel Slovak, Chet Baker, Divine, Sylvester and Roy Orbison died. Wynants continued publishing for major media groups in Belgiu amongst HHD Ogilvy, Grey International, Roularta, De Morgen, De Standaardgroep, Financieel Economische Tijd, De Persgroep and Best of Publishing. She was a regular contributor to Janus, the magazine launched by Jan Fabre. She authored several children books, short stories and articles on arts, sciences, gender whistleblowing and impact of digitization. In 2003 she founded the exchange platform Crosstalks at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Some books: We can change the weather (2010), Age (2016), Go with the Flow and Stay with the Trouble (2020). She is an advisor for the Department of Culture and a board memeber of Kaaitheater.