Anastasia Karagianni

Anastasia Karagianni is Doctoral Researcher at the LSTS research group of the Law and Criminology Faculty of VUB since 2023 and former FARI Scholar. Her academic research focuses on the "Divergencies of Gender Discrimination in the EU AI Act Through Feminist Epistemologies and Epistemic Controversies”.  She has been a visiting researcher at the iCourts research team of the University of Copenhagen, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville, ITACA Institute at the Universidtat Polytèchnica de Valècia, McGill University and Science Po. She is currently a RHEA member (VUB Research Centre on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality) and a member of the Feminist Gender Equality Network.

Besides her academic interests, Anastasia is a digital rights activist and a co-founder of DATAWO, a civil society organisation based in Greece advocating against gender inequalities in the digital era. Anastasia Karagianni was also a MozFest Ambassador 2023 and Mozilla Awardee for the project “A Feminist Dictionary in AI” of the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence working group.