Ingrida Milkaite

Dr. Ingrida Milkaitė is a postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she leads and coordinates a part of the Horizon Europe SALVUS project. Her research in this role focuses on human and children’s rights and online child sexual abuse investigations, examining current practices of law enforcement in online and undercover investigations, the ethical and fundamental rights challenges they raise, and the development of best-practice recommendations to safeguard human and children’s rights. More generally, Ingrida’s research lies at the intersection of European, international, and comparative human and children’s rights law, technology, privacy, data protection, freedom of expression, and media and platform governance, combining legal scholarship with interdisciplinary and policy-relevant insights in the digital environment.

Ingrida obtained her PhD in law at Ghent University in 2021. This doctoral project on children’s rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation was awarded the Council of Europe’s inaugural Stefano Rodotà Award (together with her PhD supervisor professor Eva Lievens). Ingrida’s subsequent postdoctoral fellowship, funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), investigated children’s voice data processing and participatory rights in the digital environment. In recognition of this work, she was awarded the 2025 Pacific Telecommunications Council Emerging Scholar Award and nominated for the FWO Postdoctoral Research Prize. Ingrida collaborates widely, including with the Law and Technology Research Group and the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University, international and regional organisations (i.e., European Commission and UNESCO), and the Working Group on Gaming and Regulation, embedded at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, as well as with other academic and civil society institutions.