Dr. Pin Lean Lau is a Lecturer in Bio-Law at Brunel Law School, Brunel University London. Her research encompasses European, international, and comparative law for genome editing; the ethico-legal governance for artificial intelligence (AI) systems; and technologies horizon scanning and legal future fore-sighting for new and emerging technologies and environments, such as the Metaverse. She has consulted as an expert panellist for the UK regulatory alliance, the Digital Cooperation Regulation Forum (DRCF) in its first Metaverse Symposium. She has also consulted as an expert with the UK Law Society on technologies and horizon scanning in its Future Worlds 2050 Project. She was recently appointed as the Director of Research/Chief Scientist for the UK & European Chapter of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance. She previously led a project on AI-driven technologies in women's healthcare, funded by the Institute for Communities & Society, to demonstrate algorithmic gender bias in healthcare datasets and a lack of representation of women’s healthcare in medicine. Currently, she is leading a project titled ‘The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Health Outcomes of Key Populations in the EU’, together with civil society organisation, Health Action International, and presented a Joint Statement to the European Commission in the European Health Policy Platform Annual Network Meeting in Luxembourg on 19^th April 2023. Her upcoming new project, ‘LEX-HMT: The Legal Governance of a Health Metaverse: Health, Immersive Biomedical Technologies, and Human Rights’ funded by the Research Initiative and Enterprise Fund, will begin in August 2023.