As of today, I have been promoted to Assistant Professor for Technology and Governance at ETH Zurich's Department of Humanities, Social and Political Science.

I am happy to announce that I have been elected as co-chair/program chair for the International Studies Association's (ISA) International Political Sociology (IPS) section. In this role, I will be responsible for putting together the program for the ISA 2023 conference in Montreal based on submissions to the IPS section. As the second part of …

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The Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law, edited by Rosamunde Van Brakel, Gloria González-Fuster and Paul de Hert, has now been published. I have contributed a chapter on "Privacy, Data Protection, and Security Studies" that reviews the growing importance of these legal concepts vis-à-vis the increasing use of digital data for security purposes …

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I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.5 Mio EUR for five years of research on data quality in European police and border control cooperation. The project will explore how national and European authorities ensure that alphanumeric and biometric data in complex, multi-layered database systems are accurate and up-to-date.

After four years, I decided it's time for a new design. Content and functionality will be restored over the coming days.