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;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;BOTTA, Marco
  International transfers of personal v. non-personal data: reconstructing the EU legal puzzle - Article

• Authors: CARLINI, Roberta;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;SCHIFFRIN, Anya
  How to update EU and US copyright regimes in the age of AI - Working Paper

• Authors: GALLI, Niccolò;BOTTA, Marco;CARLINI, Roberta;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;MARCUS, J. Scott;MAZZONI, Leonardo;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;PARCU, Pier Luigi;PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra
  CDS position statement on the UK Intellectual Property Office's consultation on standard essential patents - Working Paper

• Authors: CHOŁODECKI, Mateusz;PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;PARCU, Pier Luigi;BOTTA, Marco;MAZZONI, Leonardo;GALLI, Niccolò;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra
  CDS position statement on the European Commission's call for evidence for an impact assessment on the EU Delivery Act - Working Paper

• Authors: PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;PARCU, Pier Luigi;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra;BOTTA, Marco;MAZZONI, Leonardo;GALLI, Niccolò;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;SIGNORETTA, Camilla
  CDS position statement on the European Commission's call for evidence for an evaluation and impact assessment on the EU Chips Act 2 - Working Paper

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

• 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
  Technical solutions for a proportional use of Facial Recognition Technology - Contribution to book

• Authors: MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;MOBILIO, Giuseppe
  Facial Recognition Technology and the challenges to democratic systems : an introduction - Contribution to book

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