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Summary

Zoi is a Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law and the Coordinator of the prestigious Pan-European Seal Professional Traineeship Program with the European Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office at Brunel University of London. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an International Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center of the University of Milan (2022-2025) and a visiting Lecturer at the University of Trento (2022, 2023). Zoi is Coordinating Board member of the Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN), a member of the working group of UNESCO Internet for Trust Global Knowledge Network; the Principal Investigator of the Society of Legal Scholars research activities fund on the project ' Effectiveness of website blocking injunctions and counterfeit goods: an empirical research study of the English and Scottish jurisdictions'; the BILETA research award recipient for the project '‘Are the website blocking injunctions an effective tool to combat online piracy?’ and a co-investigator of the research grant on the project of ‘Social Media-Facilitated Trafficking of Children and Young People’ by the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre.

She holds a PhD in Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law without corrections from the University of Reading, an LLM with specialization in European Commercial Law from the University of Freiburg and an LLB (Ptychio) from Democritus University of Thrace.

Since 2012, she has been a member of the Athens Bar Association and worked as a lawyer in commercial and intellectual property law cases. In 2015, she was employed as a legal Bluebook Trainee at the Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs at the European Commission in Brussels.

Her main research interests focus on the field of Information Technology law, Copyright and Trade mark law. In particular, she is interested in ISPs’ regulatory framework, online copyright and trade mark infringements, online defamation, protection of internet users' rights, enhancement of innovation in the digital world and responsible use of AI technology and the intersection of AI and Intellectual Property Rights. 

Zoi is a regular contributor to the Kluwer Copyright Blog and has extensively published in leading journals such as the European Law Review, Intellectual Property Quarterly and European Intellectual Property Review. Her monograph with the title Internet Service Provider Liability for Copyright and Trade Mark Infringement: Towards an EU Co-Regulatory Framework has been published by Hart Publishing (2022). She has been invited to give talks on the use of filtering tools and their implications to freedom of expression and creativy at the Copyright Literacy web seminars, at the Fair Dealing week event organized by the Copyright and Legal Group of the Scottish Confederation of University & Research Libraries; on redefining copyright in the age of AI by 4iP Council and on platform regulation at the Internet for Trust Knowledge Network Seminar under the auspices of UNESCO. 

Finally, Zoi is acting as an external examiner at Birmingham City University at the LLM on International Business Law & LLM International Business Law with Professional Placement (2021-2025) and at the University of South Wales at the LLM in Intellectual Property Law (in partnership with the UK Intellectual Property Office) (2022-2026).