Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway. Her current, independent research project is entitled ‘AI Technologies in Maritime Border Management: The Panopticon of Migration’. She also teaches courses in Human Rights Law at the University of Galway. Dr Papachristodoulou holds a PhD in Law from University College Dublin (awarded without corrections). She also holds a Master of Laws in Maritime Law from University College London and an LLB from University of Southampton. Dr Papachristodoulou is also a licensed lawyer, having been called to the Cyprus Bar in 2016. Her principal research interests include the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties, maritime migration, border studies as well as philosophical and ethical underpinnings of AI technologies. Her work had appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, including her most recent paper in 2022 ‘The recognition of a right to be rescued at sea in international law’ in the Leiden Journal of International Law.