Biography

Natalia Menéndez González holds a PhD from the European University Institute, with a dissertation titled ‘Cultured Proportionality: Navigating the EU’s Fragmented Facial Recognition Landscape.’

She is also a Teaching Assistant at the School of Transnational Governance, a Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center at the University of Milano, a co-founder of The DigiCon blog, a visiting researcher at the Biometrics Law Lab of the Center for IT & IP Law at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology and former vice-chair of the PhD students in AI Ethics research group. Her other research interests include AI Ethics, especially for Natural Language Processing and the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Democracy.

Recent research output

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia
  Cultured proportionality : navigating the EU's fragmented facial recognition landscape - Thesis

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;BOTTA, Marco
  International transfers of personal v. non-personal data : reconstructing the EU legal puzzle - Working Paper

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;MOBILIO, Giuseppe
  Between prohibited risks and high risks : the regulation of facial recognition technology - Contribution to book

• Authors: MAZZONI, Leonardo;BOTTA, Marco;CARLINI, Roberta;FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;PARCU, Pier Luigi
  Implications of the digital transformation on different social groups - Technical Report

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;BOZKIR, Efe
  Eye-tracking devices for virtual and augmented reality metaverse environments and their compatibility with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation - Article

• Editors: MAJCHER, Klaudia
  Charting the digital and technological future of Europe : what priorities for the European Commission in 2024-2029? - Technical Report

• Authors: SUMER, Bilgesu;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;ELBI, Abdullah;JASSERAND, Catherine;CZARNOCKI, Jan;KINDT, Els J.
  AI Acts' ripple effect on biometric data : harmonising or fragmenting the regulation of biometric data - Contribution to book

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia
  Retos para la protección de datos en el uso de las tecnologías de reconocimiento facial - Contribution to book

• Authors: GALLI, Niccolò;BOTTA, Marco;CARLINI, Roberta;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo;MAZZONI, Leonardo;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;PARCU, Pier Luigi;PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra
  Position statement on the Joint ITA–NIST–USPTO collaboration initiative regarding standards : notice of public listening and request for comments - Working Paper

• Authors: GALLI, Niccolò;NIKOLIC, Igor;BOTTA, Marco;CARLINI, Roberta;CARROZZA, Chiara;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo;MAZZONI, Leonardo;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;PARCU, Pier Luigi;PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra
  Position statement on the European Commission’s proposal for a SEPs regulation - Working Paper