Mariam Ibrahim

Technology law, data protection and AI governance

mariamibrahim199@gmail.com LinkedIn Barcelona, Spain

I'm an LL.B and LL.M graduate specialised in technology law interested in AI governance and AI safety research.

Experience

Oct 2026 to present Client Success AssociateGartner, Barcelona, Spain
Ongoing VolunteerAI Safety Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Nov 2025 to Sep 2026 Digital Innovation TraineeEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office, Alicante, Spain
  • Drafted privacy statements and reviewed applications and tools against the EUDPR ahead of renewal, confirming continued compliance.
  • Maintained the office's data breach register with the DPO, logging incidents and tracking follow-up actions.
  • Carried out data protection assessments for newly procured tools, including clause-by-clause review of Data Processing Agreements.
  • Assessed privacy and data protection risks of the AI tools used across the office.
  • Helped coordinate ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits by compiling supporting evidence and working with different teams.
  • Drafted cybersecurity awareness presentations and updated policies for compliance with the EU Cybersecurity Regulation.
Nov 2025 to Mar 2026 Data Protection OfficerMomentumAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Drafted the company's data protection strategy and policies, aligned with the GDPR.
  • Advised leadership on emerging privacy and security risks, including what the AI Act obligations coming into force mean for the business.
  • Kept reviewing and refining internal privacy practices to close gaps before they became issues.
Dec 2024 to Nov 2025 Research VolunteerLegal Safety Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Researched how climate change case law, which links corporate activity to violations of the right to life, could inform stronger safeguards for companies developing and deploying AI systems.
Oct 2024 to Aug 2025 Education LeadAI Safety Initiative Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Coordinated courses and discussion groups on AI safety, covering Mechanistic Interpretability, AI Governance and Privacy, and Neur-alignment.
  • Facilitated research collaborations between technical and legal professionals to explore emerging AI risks.
May 2023 to Mar 2024 Research InternUniversity of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Researched how companies can improve their governance of AI systems, and how responsibility, accountability and explainability differ.
Jan to Feb 2023 Legal InternStudio Legale Avvocato Francesco Falconi, Rome, Italy
  • Carried out legal research and case law analysis to support client defences in employment, family and commercial law, in line with Italian legal standards.

Research and projects

EU-Agent-Bench: Measuring Illegal Behavior of LLM Agents Under EU Law

Accepted at three venues:

  • NeurIPS 2025, Workshop on Regulatable ML
  • IASEAI 2026
  • CPDP 2026
  • Co-developed a human-curated benchmark that tests whether LLM agents follow EU legal norms in situations where a user's request could lead to unlawful action.
  • Designed and assessed compliance scenarios, such as data protection, discrimination and scientific integrity, against rubrics grounded in the relevant legislation.
  • Investigated what happens to compliance when the agent's system prompt includes the relevant legislative excerpts and an explicit instruction to comply.

The European Health Data Space and Medical AI Devices

Chapter in Legal challenges in Data Driven Innovation

  • Analysed the European Health Data Space regulation and argued that it does not adequately address the main risks AI poses in healthcare.
  • Identified regulatory gaps including algorithmic bias, data shifts, AI misuse in clinical workflows, and weak transparency and explainability in medical AI tools.

Projects

Project BUGgy: AI safety education through gamified learning
  • Built a prototype of a game-based tool to improve engagement and retention in AI safety courses.
  • Applied cognitive psychology and learning design principles to its design.
  • Tested it with users through cognitive walkthroughs and questionnaires.
Project AI misinformation and threats to democratic rights
  • Helped fine-tune an LLM on disinformation from euvsdisinfo.eu.
  • Researched the risk of fine-tuned LLMs spreading misinformation and restricting freedom of expression.
  • Proposed AI governance policies to reduce the risks of biased fine-tuning.

About and contact

My background is in international and European law, with a technology law focus, and my work now spans data protection, AI governance and AI safety.

Education

Master of Laws, Technology Law and Innovation

University of Groningen, 2024 to 2025

Bachelor of Laws, International and European Law

University of Groningen, Technology law track, 2021 to 2024. Erasmus semester at the University of Bologna.

Languages

Get in touch

mariamibrahim199@gmail.com

© 2026 Mariam Ibrahim. Based in Barcelona, Spain.