Nikos Ioannidis works as a PhD researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group at the Faculty of Law and Criminology in the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is appointed to the Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments (d.pia.lab), where he is conducting his PhD research. He holds a Degree in Law from Greece, where he is also a lawyer, while the focus of his postgraduate studies is on data protection and EU law. Previously, he has worked in the EDPS and CiTiP, KU Leuven, among others.