Anastasia Karagianni is a Doctoral Student at the LSTS Research Group of the Law and Criminology Faculty of VUB. Her academic background is mainly based on International and European Human Rights Law, as she holds an LL.M from the department of International Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During her Master studies, she was an exchange student for one year at the Faculty of International Law at KU Leuven. She has been also a visiting researcher at iCourts research team of the University of Copenhagen.
Besides her academic interests, Anastasia is a digital rights activist, since she is a co-founder of DATAWO, a civil society organisation based in Greece for the advocacy of gender equality in the digital era. Anastasia Karagianni is MozFest Ambassador 2023, and Mozilla Awardee for the project “A Feminist Dictionary in AI”– of the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence working group.