Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda is tenured Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She carries out research on cybercrime, cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, surveillance and systemic factors that shape IT law.  Maria Grazia’s monograph ‘Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law’ (Hart Publishing 2023) is the first major work on this topic. Her work has appeared in books and leading journals published by, among others, Bloomsbury, Elsevier, IEEE, OUP and Springer. 

Maria Grazis is a Collaborator with the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre, a member of the European Data Protection Board's Support Pool of Experts and regularly serves on project ethical advisory boards. Her research is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, the Society of Legal Scholars, a Provost’s PhD Project Award and (forthcoming) the EU MSCA DN HARNESS.

She trained at the EDPS and the OECD and previously worked at the University of Namur, the European University Institute where she earned her PhD, and the University of Leeds; she also collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies. 

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