Ioulia is a doctoral researcher at the research group on Law, Science, Technology and Society of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS-VUB). She is currently working on SeCloud project on security driven engineering of cloud based applications. She holds an LLM in Law and Technology at Tilburg University. Before joining academia, Ioulia completed a traineeship at the European Data Protection Supervisor and had also been working for several years as an attorney at law in Greece.