Ruoxin Su

Ruoxin Su is a doctoral researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research group and a member of the Health and Aging Law Lab (HALL) at Vrije University Brussel (VUB).  She starts this position in June 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Paul Quinn. Her PhD research focuses on the use of genetic data in scientific research from a comparative perspective through EU and Chinese law. Her research areas also include the protection of (women’s) health data, cybersecurity for medical devices, cross-border data transfer, and Chinese digital laws and policies.

Currently, Ruoxin is engaged with the following projects funded by the European Union: (1) PLANET4Health, focusing on environment degradation and its impact on human animal and ecosystems health; (2) MAGENDA, aiming to support Asian HEIs in introducing and enforcing policies that promote gender equality and diversity at institutional level; (3) PRO-GENDERING, aiming to promote gender equality, inclusion, and diversity in university establishments and education communities. She used to contribute to another EU Horizon project CYMEDSEC, which promotes new cybersecurity standards and improved regulatory processes for the industry in the EU healthcare sector.

Ruoxin holds a Master of Laws (LL.M., 2021) in Advanced Studies in Law and Digital Technologies from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B., 2020) from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China. During her undergraduate studies, she was a visiting student at the University of Trento, Italy. Before joining VUB, Ruoxin worked as a lawyer in Beijing, China in areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, telecom and digital services law. She also seconded at Apple’s Beijing office to support internal privacy compliance matters with the global privacy team.