Simona Demková is an Assistant Professor in European law at the Europa Institute. She is leading a collaborative research project on the 'EU's human-centred digital transformation' funded by a Leiden University starter grant. Her research expertise covers a broad range of European law, including European administrative and constitutional law, protecting fundamental rights and the digitalisation and regulation of novel technologies.

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Simona Demková is an Assistant Professor in European law at the Europa Institute. She is currently leading a collaborative research project on the 'EU's human-centred digital transformation', funded by a Leiden University starter grant. Her research expertise covers a broad range of European law, including European administrative and constitutional law, protecting fundamental rights and the digitalisation and regulation of novel technologies.

Simona has been a visiting scholar at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa (2024) and the European University Institute (2020). Before joining Leiden University, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg within the framework of an interdisciplinary (law and computer science) project – DILLAN (Digitalisation, Law and Innovation). She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Professor Herwig Hofmann. Simona holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Central European University in Hungary and an Advanced LL.M. in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University.

Simona is the author of several publications, including a monograph entitled ‘Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies’ published by Edward Elgar in 2023. She regularly presents her research at international academic conferences, workshops and seminars. She is an active member of various scholarly networks. In particular, she is the Head of Section on Digital State for The Digital Constitutionalist and a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S). She is also a national rapporteur for the Tech Litigation Database, developed as part of the Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) project based at the Centre for Fundamental Rights and the Hertie School of Governance.

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