Isabella Pirlogea

Isabella Pirlogea LL.M is a Research Fellow and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions PhD Candidate ( Glocter Doctoral Network, EU GLOCAL Counter-Terrorism) at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague. With a background in international humanitarian law, Isabella is involved in researching the legal and political challenges of responsibly using digital evidence in the framework of counter-terrorism in EU strategic relations with the USA. Previously she worked at the Romanian Peace Institute on four European Commission research projects where she researched far-right anti-gender movements, technology and social media recruitment of youth, as well as adaptability of violent extremist and terrorist groups. 

Isabella's main areas of interest are international (criminal and humanitarian) law and rule of law approaches to counter-terrorism, with a focus on digital technologies and evidence collection. This includes prosecutorial challenges and political negotiations between the EU-USA on the (human rights compliant) use of digital evidence.