Sofie Royer is a research expert at CiTiP (KU Leuven), and a guest professor at UAntwerpen and ULiège. After a brief interlude as a lawyer, she has been a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Criminal Law (KU Leuven) and meanwhile a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany). Her PhD thesis (2020) on criminal seizure in a digitizing world was published as a book. Sofie’s main research focus lies with the impact of new technologies on criminal law, criminal procedure, and human rights. She is involved in various national and international research projects and coordinates important policy studies. Sofie is a regular speaker at and organizer of conferences and seminars. She is often interviewed by journalists on topics of criminal law and digitization and she contributes to making the law more accessible to a broad audience by means of podcasts.