Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh; a Visiting Researcher and Founding Member of Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute; a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute; and an International Research Fellow at the School of Law, Universitá degli Studi di Milano. He was a visiting scientist at Fraunhofer AICOS, Porto, and a visiting researcher at Meiji University, Tokyo. At Edinburgh, he is co-director of the Scottish Research Centre for IP and Technology Law and Law School lead for the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society. He has a multidisciplinary background in computer science (PhD) and law (LL.B; LL.M).

His main research interests are in human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, data protection, and cybersecurity. He has been awarded over £6m for external projects, including recently as PI of the EPSRC ‘Fixing the Future: Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’, Co-I of the EPSRC ‘Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Regulation Node’ and the ESRC ‘Emotional AI in Smart Cities’ project.