Karen Cruyt

Karen Cruyt is a doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, affiliated with the Faculty of Law and Criminology. Her work bridges legal frameworks, clinical practice, and patient perspectives, focusing on health data governance and human body material in brain tumor research. She also contributes to empirical legal studies and participates in Erasmus+ projects like EUPOM157 on gender equality in academia.

• Master of Laws: International and European Law (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2023)
• Master of Linguistics and Literature (Dutch-English) (Ghent University, 2016)

Her research spans health law, data privacy, and medical ethics, with a focus on the fluidity between personal and nonpersonal data. She has contributed to empirical-legal analyses and organized academic events like the HALL-EKFZ Summer School 2024.

Karen has received a Doctoral Scholarship and provided consultancy on data governance. She actively participates in conferences and serves on the Committee for Medical Ethics of UZ Brussel.