Isabela is a legal researcher at the Centre for IT & IP Law – CiTiP – imec - KU Leuven, where she works on data governance projects, currently with focus on ENACT and CEDAR. In parallel, she is working on her PhD over the intersection between open data initiatives and the right to data protection, aiming to understand how the interconnection of these systems can guarantee the right to memory. She obtained a Master’s degree in Economic and Regulatory Law from the University of Brasília (UnB, Brazil) in 2022, presenting a thesis on “The processing of personal data for marketing purposes”, which was published as a book by Ed. Fórum. She also holds a LL.B degree in Law from UnB (2019), having written her thesis on “The definition of the legitimate interest according to the GDPR and the Brazilian Data Protection Law (LGPD)”. As a recipient of the SANTANDER grant, she studied at the University of Granada (Spain) in 2016-2017.

Prior to joining CiTiP, Isabela worked as a lawyer and consultant at a prestigious Brazilian law firm and as a project manager at the CEDIS-IDP (2020-2022), where she contributed to projects such as “Effective LGPD” and “LGPD in the Courts”. She has also worked as head of Data Governance and Digital Economy” at LAPIN and as an assistant in the Brazilian Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE).

Isabela is interested in the following research topics:

• Ethical and legal impacts of new technologies
• Data Protection
• Regulation of new technologies
• Cybersecurity
• Data governance
• Government access to personal data
• Impact Assessments