C.A. Jasserand

Catherine Jasserand is an independent senior researcher (LawTech Research) and an affiliate research fellow at CiTiP (Centre for IT and IP Law), KU Leuven. She studied law in France and in the United States, where she obtained an LL.M in Law and New Technology at the University of Berkeley, California. She is qualified as a lawyer in France and in the United States (New York Bar).

Between 2010 and 2013, Catherine worked at IViR as a researcher in IP and media law. She then pursued her PhD research project at the University of Groningen. In 2019, she defended her PhD thesis, titled ‘Reprocessing of Biometric Data for Law Enforcement Purposes: Individuals’ Safeguards Caught at the Interface between the GDPR and the Police Directive?’. Afterwards, she was awarded an individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship to research the impacts of facial recognition technologies in public spaces on the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection (DATAFACE). For that project, she joined CiTiP at KU Leuven, as a postdoctoral researcher and conducted the research at the Biometric Law Lab established by Dr. Els Kindt. After her postdoctoral research project, she joined the University of Groningen as an assistant professor. She is now working as an independent senior researcher, providing research on AI, fundamental rights, and biometrics. Catherine has been working with computer scientists and electrical engineers for more than 12 years. In that context, she has developed a network with the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (where she gave several guest lectures and conducted two research stays), the speech technology community (through her participation in the constitution of the ISCA special interest group on Security and Privacy Speech Communication and her role in the advisory board of the doctoral network SOUNDS) and the US iProbe Lab of Professor Arun Ross (with whom she co-authored a paper on ‘Privacy through Biometric De-Identification: Bridging the Gap between the Legal and Technological perspective, presented at the PLSC in 2018).

She is regularly invited to speak at international technical conferences on biometrics to present her research.