Dr Dominika Iwan-Sojka

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Dominika Iwan-Sojka, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and a member of the Research Group on International Law and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is also a Dean’s Plenipotentiary for the Erasmus+ Program. The PhD thesis “The responsibility for using autonomous weapon systems in international humanitarian law” has been successfully completed in 2020. Previously, she worked with the Silesian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation as well as the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights. Her research concerns machine learning and international human rights and humanitarian laws, business and human rights and international arms control law. She is a primary investigator in the research project ‘The prohibition of discrimination in algorithmic decision-making’ financed by the National Science Centre of Poland.