Eleni Kosta is full Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands). Eleni is conducting research on human rights with a focus on privacy and data protection, specialising in electronic communications and new technologies. She has been involved in numerous EU research projects. In 2014 Eleni was awarded a personal research grant for research on privacy and surveillance by the Dutch Research Organisation (VENI/NWO). She is member of the Cyprus Council of Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications (KY.S.A.T.S.) and observer to the Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (EFIPPP). She is a member of editorial boards of academic journals (EDPL, IRLCT etc.) and conferences and workshops scientific and organising committees (CPDP, ISP etc.). Eleni also collaborates as associate with timelex.
Franziska Boehm is full Professor of Immaterial Rights at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and FIZ-Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. Franziska is conducting research on privacy and data protection, IP- and IT-law. She has been involved in numerous EU and national research projects and is an expert in third states data transfer (EU-US). She advises national as well as EU institutions on questions of privacy and data protection. She is a member of editorial boards of academic journals (EDPL) and conferences and workshops scientific and organising committees.