Lior Volinz

researcher

Dr. Lior Volinz is a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.  His research interests includes surveillance and policing technologies, digital governance, and the privatization and pluralization of security provision. Lior is currently conducting research in the framework of his Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral project, SURVEILWEL – ‘Digital Seams in the Social Safety net’, funded with an ERA Fellowship. His project, under the supervision of Prof. Aleš Završnik, addresses the topic of the digitalisation of the welfare state, and particularly to the social consequences of digital data collection on welfare recipients and the automation of eligibility tests in Slovenia.

Lior has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Lior has previously conducted research in Belgium, Israel/Palestine and Slovenia, where he worked on a number of projects, including SOS4Democracy, GATHERINGS (Common Standards for Security, Privacy and Cost Of the Surveillance of Public Gatherings) and PUL-MOBIL (Producing Urban Legibility: Mobile City Applications and the Local Governance of Minor Offences). Lior holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (2019), where he defended his dissertation titled ‘The Modular Security Toolbox – Assembling State and Citizenship in Jerusalem’ at the department of Human Geography, Urban Planning and International Development. Lior holds a Joint MA degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Ljubljana and Stockholm University (2013, cum laude).