Jan Czarnocki is a Doctoral Researcher and Maria Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, Belgium. He currently researches privacy and data protection, focusing on biometric and health data in the IoT-AI context within the Privacy Matters (PriMa) ITN project. His research encompasses the intersections of law, philosophy, technology, and policy.

Jan was appointed a TTLF Fellow in 2022. He is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Jagiellonian University Private Law of Data Project, Poland, and has been a Visiting Researcher at the Julius Maximillians University of Wurzburg Human-Computer Interaction Group, Germany. Before that, he was a trainee in the External Policies Directorate of the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament and a “European View” editor-intern at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in law from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and an LL.M. degree in Comparative Law from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.