Simona Demková is an Assistant Professor in European Law at the Europa Institute of Leiden University. Her research focuses on EU digital regulation, particularly the evolving enforcement architecture of the EU digital acquis and the constitutional and administrative challenges arising from the design of new enforcement authorities at EU and Member State level. More broadly, her work explores the intersection of European administrative and constitutional law, fundamental rights protection, and the regulation of emerging digital technologies.
She currently leads a collaborative research project on the EU’s human-centred digital transformation, funded by a Leiden University starter grant, and is the author of the monograph Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies (Edward Elgar, 2023). Before joining Leiden University, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg in the interdisciplinary project DILLAN (Digitalisation, Law and Innovation). She completed her PhD at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Professor Herwig Hofmann. She was a visiting scholar at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (2024) and the European University Institute (2020). For the list of publications, see here.