Victor Morel

Victor Morel is a postdoctoral researcher at Chalmers University of Technology's Security & Privacy Lab, focusing on privacy engineering and technology-law intersections. He is also an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférence) in Computer Science at French institutions, with expertise in applied cryptography and ethics of technology. He contributes to EU data governance through the EDPB’s support pool of experts.

• PhD in Computer Science (2020, INSA de Lyon - Inria)
• Master's Thesis (2016, Uppsala University)
• Engineer Degree (2016, Polytech' Lyon)

His research spans privacy/data protection, cookie paywalls, and usable security, often linking technical implementations with legal frameworks. Recent work includes studies on consent mechanisms in IoT ecosystems and critiques of backdoor encryption policies. He leads the CoIoT and CyberSecIT projects for privacy-enhancing technologies.

Key themes in his publications include: cookie paywall compliance, privacy economics, location data ethics, and cryptography in operational systems. He teaches cryptography, web security, and Python programming across institutions like Chalmers, UGA, and Insa de Lyon.

• Program Co-Chair, IWPE 2025
• PC Member, PoPETS 2023-2025
• Supervises master's theses on privacy engineering