Alp Berkay Soyfidan

Biographical note

Alp Berkay Soyfidan holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and an Advanced Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property and ICT Law from KU Leuven. His master’s thesis, Emotion Recognition in the Workplace and Its Impact on Fundamental Rights, examined the use of affect-recognition systems by employers and the challenges such systems raise for privacy, data protection, non-discrimination and human dignity.

He has more than six years of professional experience as a research and teaching assistant at law faculties in Türkiye. His work focuses on the interaction between disruptive technologies and fundamental rights, as well as on cybersecurity law and policy.

Areas of expertise 

– Intellectual property and ICT law

– Data protection, privacy and fundamental rights in the digital environment

– Cybersecurity law and policy

– Regulation and governance of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies

– Legal research and academic teaching

Research interests 

– Fundamental rights implications of disruptive technologies

– Emotion recognition and other biometric inference systems in the employment context

– Workplace surveillance, worker autonomy and human dignity

– The interplay between cybersecurity law and the protection of fundamental rights

– European and comparative approaches to the regulation of emerging technologies