Niovi Vavoula joined the University of Luxembourg in February 2024 as an Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy. Prior to the appointment she was Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Migration and Security at the School of Law of Queen Mary University of London (2022-2024) and Lecturer in Migration and Security at the same University (2018-2022), as well as Tutor in EU law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2017-18). Prof. Vavoula holds a Ph.D. (2017) and an LLM in European Law, both from Queen Mary University of London.
Her research interests lie primarily in the intersection of digital technologies and law and more broadly in IT law, Immigration law, Data Protection law, Artificial Intelligence and EU Criminal law on which areas Prof. Vavoula has published extensively (e.g. in Common Market Law Review, German Law Journal, European Journal of Risk Regulation, European Law Review and European Law Journal).