Maria Tzanou

Dr Maria Tzanou is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. She serves as Postgraduate Research Director and leads the Leverhulme Trust-funded project 'FemTech surveillance: Gendered digital harms and regulatory approaches'.

• University of Sheffield (2022-present)
• University of Keele (previous)
• Edge Hill University (previous)

Research Interests:

• European constitutional law
• Human rights and privacy
• Data protection frameworks
• Surveillance technologies
• FemTech regulation
• AI and emerging tech governance
• Big data challenges
• GDPR compliance

Recent Publications: Focus on EU data protection jurisprudence, FemTech surveillance impacts, and cross-border privacy conflicts. Key works include Hart Publishing's 2017 monograph and 2021 Routledge edited volume on health data.

Awards:

• Routledge/ALT 'Teaching Law with Technology Prize' (2018)

Grants: £160,090 Leverhulme Trust grant (2022-2024) for FemTech research. Previous SLS grants for health data ethics and Brexit-related data transfers.