Eirini BOTZA

Eirini Botza is a PhD candidate in the field of criminal law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg, under the supervision of Associate Professor Silvia Allegrezza.

Her research is focused on the impact of digitalisation on financial forensic investigations, from the perspective of criminal law and criminal procedure. It seeks to explore the interplay between the integration of automated digital solutions in financial forensics and the fair trial paradigm of criminal justice.

She is assisting her supervisor in preparation and teaching of the course of Foundations of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Master 2 level.

She previously held the role of Research and Development Specialist within the framework of AI Legalake, a NCER project dedicated to identifying AI technologies used as a preventative and investigative tool in the context of Money Laundering prevention and repression and the associated risks of such use. She has interned in the AML advisory department of a leading Luxembourg-based consulting firm. She has worked as a trainee lawyer in the practice of criminal defense and is now an EU-qualified lawyer. She also gained experience working in the field of International Sanctions and EU restrictive measures, as a trainee in Greece’s permanent representation to the EU in Brussels.

Eirini holds an LLM in European Economic and Financial Criminal Law from the University of Luxembourg (2023-2024) and a Bachelor in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018-2022).