Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Law; MSCA Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies

Principal investigator: “PROTect against EXploitation: exploitative offences versus legitimate work in a digitalised labour market” – PROTEX, co-funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies and the European ����ͷ��on (2025-2028)

Previous research:

2023-2025 – Postdoctoral researcher, under the supervision of Prof. TOSZA

• “Electronic evidence in administrative punitive proceedings”, ELEVADMIN Project, funded by the European Commission:
  • Luxembourg report on powers of administrative authorities to obtain electronic evidence from private third parties
  • Comparative report over the 9 national reports
• National Centre of Excellence in Research, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust:
  • REGCHECK project: development of a tool to check the compliance of mobile applications with the General Data Protection Regulation
  • ROBOCOMP project: legal analysis of artificial intelligence tools used for anti-money laundering compliance
• Innovation Friendly Regulations Advisory Group: assistance on the report to the European Commission, “Emerging digital technologies in public sector – The case of virtual worlds”

2020-2023 – Doctoral researcher, Centre for Comparative Labour and Social Security Law, ����ͷ��versity of Bordeaux, France, & Doctoral Programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice, ����ͷ��versity of Valencia, Spain: “New technologies and human trafficking. An analysis based on the theory of sovereignty”

Joint supervisors: Bénédicte LAVAUD-LEGENDRE, ����ͷ��versity of Bordeaux; María Teresa ALEMANY JORDAN, ����ͷ��versity of Valencia

Master 2 in European Economic and Financial Criminal Law

• Course “Criminal Law and Cyberspace”: Fighting against Child Sexual Abuse Material, Data retention and surveillance
• Course “Eurocrimes”: Human Trafficking
• Course “Methodology”: Databases & Zotero
• Supervision of master dissertations

Master 2 in European ����ͷ��on Law and Litigation

• Course “EU Asylum Law”: Human Trafficking vs Human Smuggling

Master 1 in European Law

• Course “Cyberlaw”: Online Gender-Based Violence and Content Moderation; Fighting against Child Sexual Abuse Material

Bachelor in law

• Course “Special Criminal Law”: Sexual offenses; Exploitation offenses

Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

• Seminars on methodology: Language Analysis

Invited presentations:

• “La traite des êtres humains : définition et enjeux juridiques européens et luxembourgeois”, Human Rights PhD Seminar, ����ͷ�� & Conférences Saint-Yves “La lutte contre la traite des êtres humains et la protection de ses victimes au Luxembourg”, March 2025
• “La loi du 7 août 2023 : les apports et les lacunes”, Legitech Conference “Les violences sexuelles après la Loi du 7 août 2023 en vue de renforcer les moyens de lutte contre les abus sexuels et l’exploitation sexuelle des mineurs”, February 2025
• “What does explainability mean in law? The need for a bottom-up approach”, Conference “Automating anti-money laundering compliance: technical opportunities and legal challenges”, ����ͷ��, January 2025
• Round table “Initiatives prises par les entreprises technologiques pour lutter contre la traite des êtres humains et les collaborations possibles”, BENELUX Day “Human trafficking and new technologies”, December 2024
• “La légalité des actes d’enquête numériques : le Luxembourg se conforme-t-il aux critères de la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme ?”, Legitech Conference “Justice pénale et données électroniques”, November 2024
• “Trata de seres humanos facilitada por nuevas tecnologías: roles de los Estados y de los actores digitales”, Coloquio doctoral, ����ͷ��versidad del Rosario, Colombia, June 2024
• With Siclari M., “Gathering electronic evidence for administrative punitive investigations – preliminary results of research into EU and national law”, in International Conference “Information Technology as a Challenge and an Opportunity for Gathering Evidence in Punitive Proceedings”, ����ͷ��, May 2024
• “Etat de la doctrine française sur les violences sexuelles”, in Advanced training for magistrates – Criminal law and sexual consent, a comparative law approach, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Paris, France, March 2024
• “Corporate Sustainability and New Technologies”, Lunch Seminars, Löning Human Rights & Responsible Business, August 2023
• “Sex work: Ethics and Law. Legal perspective”, Johannes Gutenberg Mainz ����ͷ��versity, Germany, May 2022

Further dissemination:

• With Benichou Duhil de Benaze M., “Scoping intrusive investigation powers through social network analysis”, 14th edition of the Illicit Network Workshop, Leiden ����ͷ��versity, the Netherlands, December 2024
• “Obligations of private actors to fight against child sexual abuse. A systematisation of EU law”, 2nd annual Child Sexual Abuse Research Network workshop, Leiden ����ͷ��versity, the Netherlands, December 2024
• With Voordeckers O., and Tosza S., “The Use of AI for Anti-Money Laundering Purposes: Keeping Human Rights in the Loop”, ILPC Annual Conference, November 2024
• With Siclari M., Voordeckers O., Abualhaija S., Ceci M. and Sannier N., “Explaining the law for software engineering”, Lawtomation Days 2024 “Computing the law, regulating the algorithm: the transformative power of digital ecosystems”, iE ����ͷ��versity, Spain, September 2024
• “Regulating sex work as platform work. A focus on algorithms to forget about sex… and work”, Digital Global Intimacies, ����ͷ��versity of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2024
• “Infiltrating virtual worlds: The regulation of undercover agents through fundamental rights”, International Congress “Towards a Responsible Development of the Metaverse”, ����ͷ��versity of Alicante, Spain, June 2024
• “Protecting trafficked victims in multi-level regulatory systems: national referral mechanisms”, Doctoral Workshop: Enforcement of law in multi-level regulatory systems, ����ͷ��, December 2023
• “Quelle justice pour les victimes de traite des êtres humains ? Entre genre, âge et origine”, Journée d’étude “Genre et justice, perspectives croisées”, ����ͷ��versité de Bordeaux & Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, France October 2023
• “Theorising sovereignty outside states”, PhD Summer Workshop in London, European Law School, ����ͷ��ted Kingdom, September 2023
• “Fighting human trafficking with new technologies: a new security approach?”, Summer School “Building bridges between dualities. Is there still room for optimistic views?”, ����ͷ��versitat de Valéncia, Spain, June 2023
• With Molinier E., “OnlyFans et relations de travail”, Internal Seminar “Les Frontières du travail marchand à l’épreuve des mutations technologiques”, COMPTRASEC, ����ͷ��versity of Bordeaux, France, November 2022
• “Repenser au territoire : Cybercriminalité et techniques d’enquête”, Conference “Repenser le territoire à l’aune du numérique”, Fédération pour l’Etude du Droit International, France, November 2022
• “Victims of human trafficking: belonging or non-belonging in Europe”, Winter School on Belonging and Non-Belonging in Europe, ����ͷ��versity of Jyväskylä, Finland, FORTHEM Alliance, March 2022.
• “Des algorithmes américains pour lutter contre la traite des êtres humains. Quelle régulation en Europe?”, Conference “Les droits et libertés face aux transformations technologiques”, ����ͷ��versité de Bordeaux, France, December 2021

Other outreach activities:

Researchers at School, organized by Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg

03/2024: Pairing Scheme, panel “Rising poverty in Luxembourg and evolution of the labour market”, Fonds National de la Recherche & Chambre des Députés, Luxembourg

02/12/2023:

2016 – 2020: Creation of the YouTube channel and publication of videos on various legal topics for a wide audience

, special mention for interdisciplinary, Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bordeaux, 2024, PhD thesis graded as Excellent, Cum Laude, ����ͷ��versity of Valencia, Spain

26/08/19 – 25/08/20: Legal writer for the magistrate in charge of the evaluation of France by the Financial Action Task Force, Sub-directorate for specialized criminal justice, Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons, Ministry of Justice, France

Internship experiences during university:

• Centre des Droits des Femmes et des Familles, Toulouse, France
• Cabinet Maître Mankou, droit des étrangers, Toulouse, France
• Mission égalité femmes-hommes, Direction Départementale de la Cohésion Sociale et de la Protection des Populations, Tarbes, France
• Lleytons Law Firm, comparative law, Valencia, Spain UNESCO Ha Noï Office (volunteer), Viet Nam

Master 2 in Economic Cooperation and International Business Law, ����ͷ��versity of Bordeaux, France, in partnership with the Vietnam National ����ͷ��versity, Vietnam

Master 1 in International Law, ����ͷ��versity of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France, in joint diploma with the ����ͷ��versity of Valencia, Spain

Spanish bachelor’s in law, ����ͷ��versity of Valencia, Spain, in joint diploma with the ����ͷ��versity of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France French bachelor’s in law, ����ͷ��versity of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France, in joint diploma with the ����ͷ��versity of Valencia, Spain