Paweł Kamocki

Paweł Kamocki /‘pavew ka’mɔtski/ is a bearded person of average size who likes wearing ties. While enrolling at the Warsaw University in 2006 he couldn’t decide whether he wanted to study law or languages, so he took both and several years later he was awarded Masters’ degrees in copyright law and linguistics. He then moved to Paris, got another two Masters’ in law (IT law and comparative law, to be precise) at Paris Descartes and a job at IDS Mannheim as a legal expert in the CLARIN project. He has since worked as a legal expert for numerous international data science projects (like EUDAT, OpenMinTeD, to name a few), taught undergraduate and graduate law students, published on legal issues in data science, helped develop a license selector for research data and software and - last but not least - spent some time working on his dissertation (prepared jointly at Paris Descartes and WWU Münster) which he hopes to defend soon. He firmly believes that even while discussing serious issues (like copyright, data protection and licensing) one still can (and should) have a good laugh.