Peggy Valcke is full professor of law & technology at KU Leuven and vice dean for research at the Leuven Faculty of Law & Criminology. She is executive committee member at CiTiP and Leuven.AI, and principal investigator in the Security & Privacy Department of imec (previously iMinds). She has taken up positions as visiting and part-time professor at Tilburg University, Bocconi University Milan, the European University Institute in Florence, and Central European University in Budapest. In January 2024, she joined the executive board of the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT – IBPT).

Peggy’s current research focus lies with the rise of artificial intelligence technologies, and in particular algorithmic decision-making, in law enforcement, transport, media services, the judiciary, etc., and the ethical-legal implications thereof, especially in relation to human rights and the allocation of responsibilities / legal liabilities.