Sophie spent a decade as a tenured track professor of Information Technology Law and Data Governance at the University of Southampton, where she held the Chair in IT Law and Data Governance until 2022. She is now visiting professor within Southampton Law School. In 2023, she became Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), an academic research hub at VUB within the wider LSTS research group. Alongside her academic career, Sophie has extensive industry experience, having worked at Immuta for six years, where she led the Legal Engineering team. In this role, she focused on the legal and ethical implications of data operations in analytics and AI environments, as well as the impacts of compliance automation. Sophie has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Law and Security Review, a leading international journal of technology law, and is now Honorary Consulting Editor.