Dr Raphaële Xenidis

Raphaële Xenidis is a lecturer in European Union Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, where she researches issues of equality and discrimination in the context of European law. Her research focuses in particular on intersectional discrimination and investigates how the critical repertoire of intersectionality is operationalised as a transformative frame by various legal actors in EU and ECHR non-discrimination law.

Raphaële’s newest Marie Curie research project is entitled PROFILE – Safeguarding Equality in the European Algorithmic Society: Tackling Discrimination in Algorithmic Profiling through EU Equality Law. It explores how the increasing use of algorithmic profiling techniques in numerous areas of life risks amplifying structural inequalities and reifying systemic discrimination and analyses the conceptual, doctrinal and procedural frictions it creates in relation to EU equality law.