Mgr. Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Ph.D., LL.M.

Research field

law of information and communication technologies, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, robotics, data protection, biometrics, neurolaw, intellectual property, legal aspects of quantum computing

Education

• Faculty of Law at Masaryk University (Mgr.)
• Faculty of Law at University of Haifa (LL.M.)
• Faculty of Law at Masaryk University (Ph.D.)

Projects

• Grant by Technology Agency of the CR No. FW11020230 Applied Legal Language Model and Benchmarks for Legal Practice (2024–2026)
• Grant by Technology Agency of the CR No. TQ12000040 CZDEMOS4AI: Beneficent Multi-Agent AI Avatar in a Small Democratic Society (2024 – 4/2025)
• Strategy AV 21 Breakthrough Technologies for the Future – Sensing, Digitisation, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies – Social Aspects of Disruptive Technologies (2022–2026)
• Project financed by the Ministry of Interior No. VJ02010029 AISEE – Artificial Intelligence-Based Search Environment for Video/Photo (2022–2024)
• Project financed by the Ministry of Finance – Norway funds No. LP-HRMGSA-017 Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era: Raising Awareness and Professional Standards in Journalism about the Impact of Modern Technologies on Human Rights (2022–2024)
• Grant by Technology Agency of the CR No. TL03000152 Artificial Intelligence, Media and Law (2020–2023)
• Grant by Technology Agency of the CR No. TL02000134 Survey and Education of Citizens in the CR in the Field of Biometrics (2019–2021)
• Strategy AV 21 Hopes and Risks of the Digital Era – Center for Innovations and Cyberlaw Research (CICeRo) (2019–2021)
• Grant by Technology Agency of the CR No. TL02000085 Civil Liability for Damage Caused by Operation of Autonomous Vehicles (2018–2021)
• Grant by Czech Science Foundation No. 16-26910S Biometric Data and Their Specific Legal Protection (2016–2018)
• Project supported by Czech Academy of Sciences – Israeli laws on support of research and development (2017)
• Project supported by Czech Academy of Sciences – Israeli biometric data protection laws (2016)

Pedagogical work

• External lecturer at Faculty of Law, Charles University (law and artificial intelligence) (since 2016)
• External lecturer at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (law and artificial intelligence) (2020–2024)
• External lecturer at Faculty of Informatics, Czech Technical University (legal protection of privacy and security in IT) (2010–2020)
• Lecturer guiding a student internship on Biometric Data and Privacy Protection within the project Open Science (2017)

Other work in academic sphere

• Executive Editor of journal The Lawyer Quarterly (2019–2023)
• Member of the Committee on utilization of intellectual property rights (advisory body of the Academic Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences) (2016–2024)
• Member of the Collegium of popularizators and PR workers (working group of the Council for academic media and popularization, an advisory body of the Academic Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences) (2017–2022)
  
  

Activities in the field of scientific popularization

• Interviews for magazines, television and radio
• Lectures during the Week of Science and Technology
• Other popularization lectures
• Popularization articles and commentaries
  
  

Other important activities related to scientific work

• Founder and chair of the SOLAIR conference – www.solairconference.com
• Organization of regular professional events on IT/IP law issues
• Member of the Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies at the European Commission (2018–2020)
• Member of the Committee for Human Rights and Modern Technologies at the Government Council (2021–2022)
• Representative of the Czech Republic in Global Partnership on AI (2022–2024)
• Czech Republic’s expert at UNESCO’s negotiations of Recommendation on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2021)
• Co-author of Czech proposals for international regulation of AI for UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT
• Co-author of the first National Artificial Intelligence Strategy of the Czech Republic (2019)
• Co-author of the non-paper of the Czech Republic “Regulatory Framework for Artificial Intelligence in the European Union”
• Chair of the AI Observatory and Forum
• Co-founder of the initiative Czech Women in Artificial Intelligence
• Alumna of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program on Technological Innovation
• Alumna of the U.S. Department of State’s and the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Connect Program