Prof. Dr. Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux

Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux is a Full Professor at the University of St. Gallen, leading the chair for Law & Technology and the Legal Design & Code Lab.

Aurelia has a background in law and economics and specializes in research at the intersection of law and digital technologies with a particular focus on privacy, data protection, design approaches, transparency of automated decision-making and artificial intelligence, automatically processable regulation, and trust in automation. Aurelia’s scientific publications on those subjects are open access and she has presented her research at numerous international conferences. During her doctoral research, which was fully funded by a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Aurelia analyzed the application of the concept of data protection by design and default in an Internet of Things environment. Her research “Designing for Privacy and Its Legal Framework” was published by Springer and won the Issekutz and SIAF award.