Bio

Barbara da Rosa Lazarotto is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is the Managing Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, an academic research centre associated with LSTS, and the Executive Director of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) & Privacy Salon. Her research centres on the intersection of data protection and data governance, and in particular on the secondary use of personal and non-personal data within the EU regulatory framework.

She is a Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, where she teaches ‘Data Governance in Urban Environments’ at the École d’Urbanisme and ‘Data et Digital: Digital Legal Matters and Perspectives’ at the École du Management et de l’Impact.

She completed her PhD in Law at the VUB with a thesis on regulatory coherence in EU data law, assessing the interactions between the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Governance Act, and the Data Act. Her doctoral research was supported by a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellowship within the ‘Legality Attentive Data Scientists – LeADS‘ project. Her ongoing research extends to the reform of EU data law under the Digital Omnibus, European data spaces, and comparative perspectives on data governance, including in Latin America.

Lazarotto studied Law at the Faculdade de Direito de Curitiba (Brazil) and at the Universidade do Porto, and holds a Master’s in Judiciary Law from the Universidade do Minho. Before joining the VUB, she served as Legal and Compliance Lead at Women4Cyber Portugal and as a Prosecutor’s Assistant at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Paraná, Brazil.