Biography

Natalia Menéndez González is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute where she researches the proportionality within the use of Facial Recognition Technology. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for a Digital Society and a teaching assistant at the School of Transnational Governance.

Menéndez González is co-founder of ‘The DigiCon’ blog. In addition, she is a visiting researcher at the Biometrics Law Lab of the Center for IT & IP Law at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology and former vice-chair of the PhD students in AI Ethics research group. Her other research interests include AI ethics, especially for natural language processing, and the intersection between artificial intelligence and democracy.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Digital transformations and society

Completed

• Impact of Covid-19 on the Academic Job Market in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
• Technological change and society

Additional responsibilities

• Senior Editor: European Journal of Legal Studies

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; MOBILIO, Giuseppe (2025), Between prohibited risks and high risks : the regulation of facial recognition technology , Contribution to book
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia (2025), Cultured proportionality : navigating the EU's fragmented facial recognition landscape , Thesis
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle; BOTTA, Marco (2025), International transfers of personal v. non-personal data : reconstructing the EU legal puzzle , Working Paper
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia (2024), Retos para la protección de datos en el uso de las tecnologías de reconocimiento facial , Contribution to book
• SUMER, Bilgesu; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; ELBI, Abdullah; JASSERAND, Catherine; CZARNOCKI, Jan; KINDT, Els J. (2024), AI Acts' ripple effect on biometric data : harmonising or fragmenting the regulation of biometric data , Contribution to book
• MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; BOZKIR, Efe (2024), Eye-tracking devices for virtual and augmented reality metaverse environments and their compatibility with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation , Article