Aleš Završnik, Senior research fellow at the Institute of Criminology, associate professor at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana University (Slovenia) and EURIAS Research Fellow 2017-18 at the Collegium Helveticum in Zürich
Dr. Aleš Završnik is EURIAS Fellow 2017/18 at the Collegium Helveticum in Zürich and Research Counsellor at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
His research interest lay in the intersection of law, crime, technology, and fundamental rights.
Among several others, he lead a research project Law in the Age of Big Data (Slovenian Research Agency, 2014 -2017), and edited a book Big Data, Crime and Social Control (Routledge, 2018) and a book Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems: Legal and Social Implications for Security and Surveillance (Springer, 2016).
He organised several conferences in these research areas, e.g. Big Data: Challenges for Law and Ethics (Ljubljana, 2017). He is an independent Ethics Expert with the European Research Council (ERC) and for the REA, the research arm of the European Commission, for Horizon 2020 projects.