Anastasia Karagianni

Anastasia Karagianni is Doctoral Researcher at the LSTS research group of the Law and Criminology Faculty of VUB and former FARI Scholar. Her academic background is mainly based on International and European Human Rights Law, as she holds an LL.M. from the Department of International Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During her Master's studies, she was an exchange student for one year at the Faculty of International Law at KU Leuven. She has been also a visiting researcher at the iCourts research team of the University of Copenhagen and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville. Her academic research focuses on the "Divergencies of Gender Discrimination in the EU AI Act Through Feminist Epistemologies and Epistemic Controversies”. 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, since she is a co-founder of DATAWO, a civil society organisation based in Greece advocating for gender equality in the digital era. Anastasia Karagianni was a MozFest Ambassador 2023, and Mozilla Awardee for the project “A Feminist Dictionary in AI”– of the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence working group.