Mónika Mercz is a Childhood and AI Lab Research Fellow at AIChildSafety.org. She was previously a research fellow at George Mason University, and a visiting researcher at The George Washington University in Washington D.C., where her research centered around how AI can be used to better protect children online. She is currently completing her PhD studies in Law and Political Sciences at the Doctoral School of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, where her research topic examines how constitutional identity manifests in essential state functions of the Member States of the European Union. A graduate of the University of Miskolc with a degree in law, she specialized as an English legal translator and holds a degree in AI and Law from the University of Lisbon. She is a founding editor of Constitutional Discourse, leading the Privacy & Data Protection column.