New visitor at CeBIL - Taner Kuru
27 January - 7 February 2025
Taner is a PhD researcher at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of Tilburg University, where he researches the ethical and legal implications of investigative genetic genealogy. He is also interested in the implications of novel technologies, such as GenAI, on the EU data protection framework.
Before joining TILT, he completed the Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies program at Leiden University with cum laude distinction as an awardee of the Jean Monnet Scholarship in 2020. He received the European Data Protection Law Review’s “Young Scholar Award” for his article “Genetic Data: The Achilles’ Heel of the GDPR?” based on his master’s thesis. He also worked as an intern at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute (UNICRI) Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in 2020. Taner is also a certified lawyer at Ankara Bar Association and previously worked as an attorney-at-law in Turkey.