Vanessa

Franssen

University of Liège (BE)

Vanessa Franssen is Professor at the University of Liège (Belgium) and Co-director of the Service de droit pénal, de procédure pénale et de droit pénal international. Furthermore, she is Affiliated Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law of the KU Leuven. She is also a guest lecturer at the University of Luxembourg and a member of the Brussels bar. Vanessa specializes in cybercrime, EU criminal law, economic and financial criminal law, national and comparative criminal law and criminal procedure. She has specific experience in comparative and interdisciplinary research (e.g. data protection law). She is particularly interested in the impact of new technologies (including artificial intelligence) on criminal law and criminal procedure. She is the author of numerous publications and conference papers, and an associate editor of the European Law Blog (https://europeanlawblog.eu). Together with Prof. Stanislaw Tosza (University of Luxembourg), she is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook on Digital Evidence in Criminal Matters, to be published by Cambridge University Press later this year. She has been consulted by European and national policymakers on, for instance, e-evidence, data retention and the data protection regime applicable to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/en/directory?uid=U224299