Our Independent Ethics Advisory Board

She is also one of the co-founders of the Institute of Law and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (IDT-UAB). She holds a JSD in law (Stanford University 2002) and a Master in International Legal Studies (Stanford University 2000). Her research interests cover different areas at the intersection of law, political sciences, and technology, with a focus on data, AI, distributed technologies, human-computer interaction, and the different theories of democracy and citizenship. She has been the PI of national and international research projects, she is a member of different EU ethic advisory boards and committees, and has published over 80 scientific articles and book chapters on these topics.

She works at the intersection of international security and technology, and is the author of the book “Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence”, (Oxford University Press). Previously, she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Zurich, and postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s International Security Program. Since 2009, she has worked for the California-based non-profit organisation Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Nature Human Behaviour, among others. 

She is also a Research Associate with the Chair of AI & Democracy at the Florence School of Transnational Regulation (European University Institute) and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University). Her research examines the intersection of digital technology, political participation, and governance, with a focus on participatory and computational methods and the ethics of digital research. Her work has been supported by the European Research Council, the Dutch Research Council, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the HorizonEU programme, and others. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and has previously held positions at Universität Luzern, the University of Toronto, Tilburg University, and the Central European University.

She is also Professor and Senior Researcher at Vilnius University, and the Head of the Consumer Decision Making lab at Vilnius University. Her research lines focus at the intersection of behavioural and marketing sciences. She works on novel approaches to help citizens make better decisions and smarter choices by testing how various decision-making insights can be applied to encourage positive changes in different domains – being more resilient to disinformation, making more sustainable decisions, changing unhealthy lifestyles and habits to healthier ones, increasing overall consumer welfare and wellbeing. For the last 15 years, she has been serving as a PI on various research projects funded by the HorizonEU and H2020 programme, the Lithuanian Research Council, and the Fulbright program.