Seda Gürses

Seda Gürses is a researcher working on privacy in online social networks, requirements engineering and privacy enhancing technologies at COSIC, Department of Electrical Engineering, at the KU Leuven/Belgium.

She is part of the SPION project in which an interdisciplinary team explores the challenges of understanding and addressing privacy problems associated with online social networks with a specific emphasis on mitigating processes of responsibilization. She further collaborates with artists from Constant VZW (Brussels/Belgium), École de Recherche Graphique (Brussels), ESC (Graz/Austria) and Piet Zwart Design School (Rotterdam/Netherlands) on feminist critique of computer science, open source and free software development, as well as surveillance studies.