2 PhD positions available under the MSCA ITN programme LeADS: Legality Attentive Data Scientists (# of pos: 2)

The emergence of data science has raised a wide range of concerns regarding its compatibility with the law, creating the need for experts who combine a deep knowledge of both data science and legal matters. The EU-funded LeADS project will train early-stage researchers to become legality attentive data scientists (LeADS), the new interdisciplinary profession aiming to address the aforementioned need. These scientists will be experts in both data science and law, able to maintain innovative solutions within the realm of law and help expand the legal frontiers according to innovation needs. The project will create the theoretical framework and the practical implementation template of a common language for co-processing and joint-controlling basic notions for both data scientists and jurists. LeADS will also produce a comparative and interdisciplinary lexicon.

Overall LEADs envisage to open 15 positions for ESRs. At the Jagiellonian University two positions are to be opened: for ERS 8 and ERS 12. N. 1

We are looking for 2 Early Stage Researchers (ESR)/PhD Researchers. They will be working under the framework of LeADS project. Their main task will be to collaborate to the LeADS Research and Training Program and to prepare their doctoral thesis in the same framework. The PhD thesis work will be undertaken at Jagiellonian University. The ESRs will be jointly-supervised under the direction of the LeADS consortium and will spend also secondment(s) at Consortium members.

ERS 8

Project Title: Technical and legal aspects of privacy-preserving services: the case of Health Data

Objectives: Technical and legal aspects of medical data protection using traditional encryption techniques, coupled with proper key management schemes, as well as anonymization and/or privacy-preserving data management techniques using efficient cryptography (e.g. homomorphic, secure multi-party computations)

ERS 12

Project Title: The boundaries of information property: from concepts to practice

Objectives: (1) Construct a theoretical framework defining the concept of information and information property, and classify in a single, unitary spectrum the various types of information regulated and protected at EU and domestic levels. Perform a wide analysis of legal regimes affecting information, including data protection and the various forms of IP protection, distinguishing the legal regimes affecting corporate information (such as patents or software) and user information (data collected from or stored by users).(2) Research business practices and business models related to the management and exploitation of information assets, their impact on development of a public regulatory framework, as well as compatibility of the commodification/propertization of information and personal data at both the EU and transnational level with the dogmatic pillars of national private law systems. (3) Develop business guidelines to assist producers, service providers, and consumers in managing and contracting over their information assets and data in a less antagonistic, more unitary fashion, and define policies that can effectively guarantee the exercise of property and intellectual property rights over the information.