Maria is an Associate Professor in the Deakin Law School. She is also lead of the Technology Stream of the Law as Protection Centre at Deakin University. Her teaching and research interests are public law, refugee law and human rights law.
Maria holds a doctorate from Monash University, having completed her PhD on Article 1C(5) of the 1951 Refugees Convention dealing with cessation of refugee status. She also undertook a Masters of Law degree at the University of Essex (UK), specialising in international human rights law.
She is the author of a number of international and national publications on the subjects of refugee law and administrative law and is currently working on a series of projects relating to automation, artificial intelligence and government decision-making.