Bio

Irene works as Assistant Professor Cybercrime Law and Human Rights at TILT. She is also Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School and affiliated researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Irene obtained a joint doctorate degree from Tilburg University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She has conducted research for the European Commission, the Dutch National Cyber Security Agency, the European Cybersecurity Agency and others. She is invited as external expert evaluator of EU funded proposals. Irene is a member of the ENISA Experts List for assisting in the implementation of its Annual Work Programme and of the CEN-CENELEC/BTWG 3 'STAIR' on STAndardization, Innovation and Research. Irene was the winner of the 2021 Standards+Innovation Individual Researcher award of the European Standardisation Organisations. She is qualified attorney-at-law and was practicising for several years before joining academia.Since August 2022, Irene is the Research Coordinator at TILT.

Teaching

  • Cybercrime (620068-M-6) course coordinator and lecturer at LL.M. Law & Technology.
  • Global Law bachelor: Law, Technology and Society course lecturer (620296-B-6).
  • Honors Program: Trust in the Information Age: ‘You can trust me, I'm a lawyer’: cementing trust(worthiness) in law and institutions.
  • Guest lectures on cybersecurity, cybercrime, data protection & privacy, regulation theory, soft law, standardisation, certification, international data flows.
  • JADS Professional doctorate program on data science: lecturer on cybersecurity and data protection law.
  • PhD co-supervisor of Ana Maria Hriscu (with prof. E. Kosta) and Pratham Ajmera (with prof. P. Delimatsis).
  • Master Thesis supervision.

Courses

Collaboration

  • Affiliated Researcher - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group on Law, Science, Technology, Society)
  • Attorney at law (Athens Bar Association - Greece)
  • Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford University
  • Member of the ENISA Experts List for assisting in the implementation of the Annual ENISA Work Programme, ENISA M-CEI-21-T41
  • Editorial Board - Journal of Standardisation (open access, hosted by TU Delft)
  • Member of CEN-CENELEC Working Group of the Technical Boards 'STAIR' (STAndards, Innovation and Research)
  • Member of Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) Network (Harvard Law School)
  • Member of Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR)
  • Member of European Academy for Standardisation EURAS
  • Annual Privacy Forum (APF) Program Committee Member
  • IPEN - Internet Privacy Engineering Network (EDPS)
  • Technical Committee Cybersecurity and Privacy of the Dutch Standardisation Institute NEN
  • Member of the European Data Protection Board experts pool

Highlights

  • Nominated for the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Research Prize 2023
  • Winner of the CEN CENELEC Standards + Innovation award, category Individual Researcher/Innovator for 2021 (nominated by NEN)
  • Shortlisted for CEFCYS (top 3) for Cyber Woman Excellence award - Europe 2021
  • Principal Investigator - Horizon Europe ENCRYPT project on  Scalable And Practical Privacy-Preserving Framework.
  • Principal investigator - National Cyber Security Centre (NL) -study on Network and Information Security Directive (2022) and cybersecurity certification (2020)
  • Principal investigator - COM DG JUST study on GDPR certification 2019
  • Honourable mention at the NENnovation competition 2019
  • Presentation at the IGLP Harvard Law School conference 2018
  • Most read paper for 2018 (2nd place) European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL)
  • Contributed to the development of a CEN Workshop Agreement (European standardisation deliverable)  https://www.cencenelec.eu/media/CEN-CENELEC/CWAs/RI/cwa17147_2017.pdf
  • Best paper award - ITU-Kaleidoscope Conference 2015
  • Young Author Recognition certificate -  ITU-Kaleidoscope Conference 2015

Recent publications

  1. A practical and scalable privacy-preserving framework

    Avgerinos, N., D'Antonio, S., Kamara, I., Kotselidis, C., Lazarou, G., Mannarino, T., Meditskos, G., Papachristopoulou, K., Papoutsis, A., Roccetti, P., & Zuber, M. (Accepted/In press). A practical and scalable privacy-preserving framework. In Proceedings of 2023 IEEE CSR Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Processing and Analysis https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10224928/authors

  2. Article 42 commentary - Certification

    Kamara, I. (2023). Article 42 commentary: Certification. In I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann, V. Papakonstantinou, G. Hornung, & P. de Hert (Eds.), European general data protection regulation : Article-by-article commentary (1st ed., pp. 757-766). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

  3. Article 43 commentary - Certification bodies

    Kamara, I. (2023). Article 43 commentary: Certification bodies. In I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann, V. Papakonstantinou, G. Hornung, & P. De Hert (Eds.), European general data protection regulation: Article-by-article commentary (1st ed., pp. 767-774). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

  4. Legal aspects of standardisation - Relationship of standards and law …

    Kamara, I. (2023). Legal aspects of standardisation: Relationship of standards and law in the EU. (Standardisation Training Academy; Vol. Level: Beginner 1, No. Course: 5). European Commission. https://hsbooster.eu/sites/default/files/2023-03/B1%2005%20LEGAL%20ASPECTS%20OF%20STANDARDISATION.pdf

  5. Legitimate interests

    Kamara, I. (2023). Legitimate interests. In S. Garben, L. Gormley, & K. Purnhagen (Eds.), Oxford encyclopedia of EU law (1 ed.). Oxford University Press. https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law-oeeul/law-oeeul-e189
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Artificial Intelligence Big data Cybercrime Data protection Data science Human rights Regulation Security Self-regulation Standardization

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