Dani Brutyn holds a Master in Criminological Sciences (2011) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a Master in International Relations and Diplomacy (2013) from the University of Antwerp. She completed her studies with an internship at the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the United Nations in New York. After almost two years as an educational assistant and a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she joined the Department of Criminology of the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology (Federal Public Service Justice) as a research assistant in 2018. She coordinates and supports several valorisation projects of the Criminology Department.