Irmak Erdoğan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for IT & IP Law, where she conducts research under the CIF Project and leads the legal aspects of the Starlight Project. She earned her doctorate in law from Galatasaray University in 2022, specializing in criminal law, data protection, and the impact of AI on criminal justice. During her PhD, she conducted research at the University of Florence (Dec 2019 – Mar 2020) and was a Swiss Government Excellence Scholar at the University of Basel (Oct 2020 – Sep 2021). Prior to her academic career, she was a licensed lawyer in Istanbul, focusing on media, criminal, and human rights law.