Natália Slosiarová

Natália is a legal specialist and a PhD candidate at the Ethics and Human Values in Technology team. She holds a Master’s degree in Law from Comenius University in Bratislava. Before joining KInIT, she gained practical legal experience working at a law firm and in a corporate environment. She has been with KInIT since her internship, and now works as a law specialist alongside pursuing her doctoral studies. Her professional focus spans digital and AI regulation, ICT law, fundamental rights, data privacy, and intellectual property issues arising in the digital environment.

Natália’s doctoral research, supervised by doc. JUDr. Matúš Mesarčík, PhD., LL.M., addresses one of the more underexplored questions in EU fundamental rights law: the legal grounding and protection of the right to (mental) integrity of the person in the age of artificial intelligence. While mental integrity is enshrined in Article 3 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, it remains an insufficiently defined concept, particularly in light of AI systems that can influence cognition, emotion, and decision-making in increasingly sophisticated ways. The dissertation seeks to articulate a clear, doctrinally grounded definition of mental integrity under EU law, and to critically assess whether existing legal instruments, including the AI Act, GDPR, DSA, DMA, and relevant medical and consumer regulations, provide meaningful protection against serious AI-driven threats to this right. The overarching goal is to identify gaps in the current legal framework and to chart a path toward more coherent and effective protection of mental integrity within the EU legal order.

She has co-authored several academic papers and contributed to multiple reports and policy documents addressing digital regulation and AI governance. She has also participated in Vigilant, ALFIE, SensAI, and DIG4HEALTH projects, contributing to legal and policy-oriented outputs within these initiatives. Alongside her academic work, she has also engaged in collaboration with industry partners within the HOPERO project including AI:Dental, ELV.AI, and Bencont, helping with AI Act compliance-related questions.