Panagiota Kiortsi

Panagiota Kiortsi is a lawyer specializing in Public Law, Human Rights, Information Technology Law, and Data Protection. She is a certified Data Protection Officer (DPO) and collaborates with both public and private sector entities to ensure compliance with the legal framework on personal data protection and digital operational resilience.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2012, she obtained her master’s degree in public law at the same Institution and in 2022 she completed her doctoral dissertation on the topic: “The Limits of State Supervision and Intervention on Social Networking Platforms.”

She participates in national and international scientific research projects as a researcher and publishes regularly in scientific journals and conference proceedings. In 2021, she was awarded a research fellowship under the project “Legal Issues of Big Health Data Processing under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 679/2016” (MIS 5047861), co-funded by the European Union under the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014–2020”

Her research interests include personal data protection, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital operational resilience and legal issues emerging from the use of Social Networking Sites.

Since 2020, she has been a facilitator in the “Data Protection Officer Training Program” at the Centre for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

Research Interests

• Personal Data Protection
• Regulatory Framework for Large
• Language Models (LLMs) and AI
• Big Health Data
• Digital Rights
• Social Networking Sites

Funded Research Projects

• 2023–2025
  Postdoctoral research in the research project: “Artificial Intelligence-driven Framework and Legal Advice Tools for Phishing Prevention and Mitigation in Information Systems (AILA – PROJECT ID: 15440)”
• 2019–2021
  Research fellowship in the research project: “Legal Issues of Big Health Data Processing under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 679/2016” (MIS 5047861), co-funded by the European Union under the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014–2020”
• 2018–2020
  Research participation in the European research project: “Action Grants to Support Training Activities on the Data Protection Reform – TRAIN GR-CY”, under the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014–2020)

• Kiortsi P., Every breath you take: Privacy and Data Protection on Social Networking Sites, in “From Television to New Media and Greek Society”, edited by T. Doulkeri, Papazisis Publications, Athens, (2014)
• Kiortsi P., Freedom of Expression and Censorship on Social Networking Sites, in “Information Law, Legal Tech and Data Protection – 4th Panhellenic Conference”, ed. E-THEMIS Scientific Association & University of Macedonia, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, (2013)
• Kiortsi P., Surveillance Cameras and Personal Data, in “2nd Joint Constitutional Law Seminar – Koryschades, Evrytania, 12 March 2010”, EKPA & AUTh, Public Law LL.M. Programme, Sakkoulas Publications, Athens–Thessaloniki, (2011)
• Kiortsi P., Freedom of Expression and Censorship on Social Networking Platforms, To Syntagma (The Constitution), Issue 3–4, (2014)
• Iglezakis I., Trokanas Th., Kiortsi P., The Right Not to Be Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making/Profiling Concerning Big Health Data: Developing an Algorithmic Culture, Int. J. Data Sci. & Big Data Anal. Vol.1(, Issue 3, (2021)
  DOI: 10.51483/IJDSBDA.1.3.2021.6-14
• Iglezakis I., Trokanas Th., Kiortsi P., Big Health and Genetic Data: Opportunities, Risks, and Legal Conundrums regarding the application of GDPR, Journal of Internet Law [Wolters Kluwer], Vol. 24, Issue 10, (2021),
• Kiortsi P., Iglezakis I., Feidas C., Kosmopoulos D., Thomopoulos G., The Regulation of Large Language Models (LLMs) under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on Artificial Intelligence and the GDPR, Information Law Review, (2024)
• Kiortsi P., Iglezakis I., Feidas C., Kosmopoulos D., Thomopoulos G., Is Regulating LLM Hallucinations Elusive? A Legal and Ethical Approach, Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE), Rome (2025) (submitted)