Research Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), Faculty of Law, KU Leuven
RU CiTiP - Research Associate(s) (100% - senior/junior) - technology and law (ref. BAP-2024-371) The KU LEUVEN Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) @KU Leuven is a research unit of the Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid en Criminologische Wetenschappen KU Leuven (Law and Criminology) founded to develop legal knowledge in the field of #ICT, digital #media and #intellectualproperty. The Centre is affiliated to imec (research group on security & privacy) and is part of both the Leuven Centre on ICT (#LICT) and #Leuven.AI. #CiTiP has over thirty years of experience conducting research into the #legal and #ethical aspects of innovative #information and #communication #technologies, #privacy and #security, #intellectualproperty and #biotechnology, in both the public and private sectors. The Centre currently consists of over 90 full-time researchers involved in interdisciplinary projects financed through programmes such as #H2020, #MarieCurie, #FWO and #ICON as well as through bilateral contracts. For more information regarding the Centre, please consult our website. Responsibilities The ongoing digitisation and increased interconnectedness (#IoT, #smartdevices, intelligent transport systems, interconnected medical devices (‘IoMT’), …) of everyday life results in growing levels of cybercrime, and hence, a growing need for cybersecurity. To address these challenges, the Flemish Government has decided to set up the “#Cybersecurity Initiative Flanders”, which includes a long-term strategic research programme on cybersecurity (see here for additional information). To improve impact, the research programme will entail both fundamental research and demand-driven research, carried out in close collaboration with industry and government, as well as regulators and policy makers to discuss appropriate governance. As a partner in the strategic research programme for cybersecurity, CiTiP will be responsible for the legal research activities in the area of network, information and service security. This research will be carried out in close cooperation with the computer scientists and engineers at #DistriNet (led by Prof. Wouter Joosen) and #COSIC (led by Prof. Bart Preneel) of the KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering. The selected researchers will work on a variety of themes which include, but are not limited to, the legal issues surrounding identity management and the use of technologies such as #biometrics and #blockchain, #data-protection and #security-by-design, #data-driven security measures, assessing new #cryptographic solutions (like secure multi-party computation) in light of existing legal requirements under the European and national legislation on data protection, cybersecurity, critical infrastructures, the investigation and prosecution of cybercrime. https://lnkd.in/dYtsMQUG