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 and humanitarian negotiation, Isabella is involved in conducting evidence-based research on transatlantic e-evidence cooperation on serious crime investigations. Her PhD research covers the reconfiguration of mutual recognition agreements in the area of transatlantic e-evidence cooperation, with a theoretical and empirical focus on the paradigmatic change brought about by the European Production and Preservation Orders (EPOR) in the EU E-Evidence Package adopted in 2023, as well as the future of cooperation in criminal matters on digital evidence predicted to happen after the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and the EU on the E-Evidence Agreement are concluded. 

Previously she was involved in the European Commission Radicalisation Awareness Network as an expert, supported UN Women’s Western Balkan Working Group on Economic Empowerment as an advisory member and acted as a researcher and project manager in four European Commission Research and Innovation projects with a Romanian NGO PATRIR. Isabella acted as a humanitarian assistant in Romania and Ukraine under the UNHCR in 2022. 

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.  

Dolghin, D., and I. Pirlogea. “Teachers in Romanian Secondary Schools: Challenges and Responses in Preventing Polarization and Extremism.” Italian Journal of Sociology of Education 15, no. 3 (2023): 149-174, https://ijse.padovauniversitypress.it/issue/15/3  

Pirlogea, I., N. Herki, M. Shangoyan, and C. Apostiki. “No National Plans: Tackling Radicalisation and Discrimination with the Effort of Civil Society in Greece and Romania.” International Review of Sociology (CIRS) (2024), No national plans. Tackling radicalisation and discrimination with the effort of civil society in Greece and Romania: International Review of Sociology: Vol 33 , No 3 - Get Access 

Akic, N., D. Dolghin, I. Pirlogea, K. McDonald, J. Gryner, L. Marinone, et al. “Drivers of Far-Right Extremism.” In How to Explain Radicalization? A Comparison on the Driving Factors of the Far-Right, the Far-Left, Separatist, and Religious Extremism, edited by Sociological Challenges, 2:89-134. Milan: Mimesis International (2022), How to Explain Radicalization?: Comparing the Drivers of Far-Right, Far-Left, Separatism and Religious Extremism (Sociological Challenges): Amazon.co.uk: Antonelli, Francesco, Marinone, Lorenzo: 9788869774041: Books