Dr. P.A. Vogiatzoglou

Plixavra Vogiatzoglou joined the University of Amsterdam Law School in January 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher. Between 2024-2025, she worked at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) and the Institute for Information Law (IViR) on the concept of digital sovereignty, how it relates to traditional international law understandings of sovereignty, and how the promotion and promise of emerging and future technologies, such as quantum technologies, shape it within policy and regulation. As of January 2026, Plixavra continues her research at IViR through her involvement in two projects: “Artificial Secrecy: Taking Transparency in EU Digital and Data Regulation Seriously” and “Law and Governance of Quantum Technologies”. In her work, she adopts critical legal perspectives, including feminist accounts, to assess digital policy and governance frameworks and the impact of digital technologies and infrastructures on fundamental rights, freedoms and society. She also teaches on topics of digital regulation, including artificial intelligence and data protection law.

Plixavra holds a PhD from the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), where she remains an affiliated researcher. Her dissertation questions the lawful establishment of mass data surveillance for predictive policing frameworks, such as the PNR, ECS and AML data retention and transfer schemes, in light of the EU's powers to provide security whilst safeguarding fundamental rights, particularly privacy, data protection, effective remedy, fair trial and presumption of innocence. At CiTiP, she also worked on national and European projects, researching how emerging technologies developed and deployed in the field of security interfere with privacy and data protection rights. Plixavra is a certified lawyer in Greece and holds an LLM in Intellectual Property and ICT law from the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and an LLM in International Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Law. For a list of activities and publications before 2024, see here.