Advisory Board

Ethics Advisory Board

Dr. Holger Nitsch

Department for Policing at University of Public Services in Bavaria
Director of Center of Excellence for Police and Security Research

Dr. Holger Nitsch is the Director of the Centre for Excellence for Police and Security Research at the Department for Policing at the University of Public Services in Bavaria/Germany. His specialisation, expertise and research interests cover terrorism, radicalisation, violent extremism, illegal migration, cybercrime and organised crime.
Dr. Nitsch’s career includes work in the domain of antiterrorism for aircrafts and airports. Dr. Nitsch is an experienced manager of various research and development projects funded by the EU under the H2020 and Horizon program.

Dr. Zvonimir Ivanovic

University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, Serbia
Full professor

Dr. Zvonimir Ivanovic graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac. Since 2005, he has been working as an expert associate at the Police College in Belgrade. Since 2007, he has been an associate at the Police Academy as a teaching assistant for the subject Introduction to Criminalistics. Since 2008, he has been a teaching assistant for the subjects Organized Crime, Illegal Migration and Human Trafficking, Criminal Tactics and Tactics for Securing Testimony. He was also assigned to the subjects Corruption and Money Laundering and Organized Crime and Terrorism, according to the plan and program of the Police Academy. In 2008, at the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac, he defended his magister’s thesis entitled Modus operandi system and criminal profiling in the detection of perpetrators of criminal acts. In 2011, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Criminal Procedure and Criminal Aspects of Cybercrime. He has published (as an author and co-author) no less than 8 monographs and more than 80 scientific and professional papers. By the decision of the Teaching-Scientific Council of the Criminal Police Academy, in 2011 he was elected a teacher of the Academy with the title of assistant professor. Currently he is a full professor at University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies in Belgrade and Law Faculty. He is a Chevening Fellow, of Cranfield University UK, and Expert of CERIS of DG-Home EU, a lead of four EU projects WPs and Overall manager of one.

Dr. Helga Molbaek-Steensig

European University Institute, Department of Law

Dr. Helga Molbæk-Steensig is a post-doctoral researcher at the European University Institute’s Department of Law, focusing on the intersection of AI and human rights. She currently contributes to the ELOQUENCE project, which explores how AI systems can be developed to respect human rights in multilingual, cross-cultural settings. Her research focuses on balancing individuals’ rights when deploying generative AI in safety-critical environments, ensuring fairness and minimising bias. In previous research, she has studied balancing the rights of individuals with the rights of others or other legitimate public aims through the permissible limitations doctrines of the European Court of Human Rights. Before using this expertise in relation to AI, she was part of a project on balancing rights to freedom of movement, assembly, expression, privacy and non-discrimination with rights to life and health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Molbæk-Steensig has published widely on human rights and the impact of AI, including issues such as fair trial rights and the potential for bias in judicial systems. Her insights into how emerging technologies affect the rights of multiple stakeholders are directly relevant to SafeHorizon, which aims to balance the benefits of AI-powered cyber policing with the potential risks to privacy, non-discrimination and other civil and political rights. Her work has appeared among other outlets in the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law, the European Journal of Legal Studies and in various collective volumes with top publishers.