Maria is a Senior Lecturer at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. There, she teaches and co-coordinates courses in the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management. At the European University Institute in Florence, she is currently finishing her PhD Referees and Rambos: Enforcers of Data Protection in the European Union, focusing on the GDPR enforcement framework. Before joining the ECPC, Maria worked at NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights in Vienna, the European Parliament and the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights. She holds an LLM from the EUI (2020), a Master’s degree in law (2018) and a Bachelor’s degree in Polish philology (2017) from the University of Warsaw. Maria is a founding member of the Management Committee of the Data Protection Scholars Network. She is an editor of the Digital Constitutionalist and an EUI Digital Public Sphere Working Group member.