Erik Kamenjašević is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) at KU Leuven. Erik’s doctoral thesis defines the ethical and legal challenges of new human enhancement technologies to provide recommendations about feasible regulatory options to EU policymakers and lawmakers.

Erik also conducts research and publishes scientific articles on topics within the eHealth domain that are dealing with AI, medical devices, open-source software & hardware, IPRs, and cybersecurity. The most recent EU-funded projects he has been working on as a legal-ethical advisor are POTION, CORE-MD, and SafeCare. Prior to these, he worked on a number of Horizon 2020 projects or similar projects funded by KU Leuven, the European Commission, or the Research Foundation - Flanders.

Erik is a founding member of the Beyond Cosmethics IdeaLab.

Since November 2022, Erik has been a fellow at the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) at Stanford Law School. His research deals with the comparative US-EU analysis of AI-based medical device cybersecurity.

Before joining KU Leuven, Erik obtained LL.M. in International Business Law from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Rijeka (Croatia). Erik worked as a legal trainee in the Cabinet of the President of the EFTA Court, a trainee lawyer-linguist at the Court of Justice of the European Union, and a junior lawyer in a Croatian-based law firm.