C.A. (Catherine) Jasserand

Catherine holds a PhD in biometrics and privacy from the University of Groningen, an LL.M in IP and New Technology law from UC Berkeley (USA) and a Master’s degree in European law from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). She worked in various EU institutions (European Parliament, European Central Bank) as well as in the private sector. Before joining the University of Groningen in 2014, she was a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (IViR), where she researched IP (online intermediaries’ liability, copyright and public sector information) and media law. Catherine is qualified as a lawyer in France and in the United States (New York Bar).

Between 2020 and 2023, Catherine was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow  within CiTiP (KU Leuven, Belgium), where she pursued her research project on facial recognition in public spaces. Since February 2024, she has joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen to work as an assistant professor within STeP. She will research the intersection between AI, biometrics, and fundamental rights.

Catherine has collaborated on several EU-funded projects with computer scientists and electrical engineers on biometrics-related topics. She is a regular speaker at international technical conferences. In 2021 and 2022, she co-organised two workshops on Artificial Intelligence for the biometric community in collaboration with the European Association for Biometrics (EAB).