Alexandra Ziaka
PhD Candidate
Tilburg University
Alexandra Ziaka is a PhD researcher of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). Her PhD is focusing on the right to freedom of thought and particularly states’ positive obligations against digital mind interferences that aim to influence mental states.
André Janssen
Professor of Private Law
Radboud University
André Janssen is Chair Professor of European Private Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and is the Head of Department. He has been a visiting scholar or professor at many prestigious universities and held among others the Francqui Chair and the Global Law Chair at Leuven University, and the Wenlan Scholar Chair at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan). André has delivered over 250 presentations at international conferences across five continents. He is a current or former member of various national and international research networks and has authored more than 170 publications, including books, articles, and other contributions, with a focus on European Private Law, Commercial Law, Comparative Law, and Digital Law (e.g., Artificial Intelligence and Law, blockchain, and smart contracts). He serves as Co-Chief Editor of the European Review of Private Law (ERPL) and is on the editorial boards of the International Arbitration Law Review (IALR) and Opinio Juris in Comparatione. In 2023, he was elected Rapporteur by the CISG Advisory Council for the forthcoming opinion on “Smart Products under the CISG.” André is also a Council Member of the European Law Institute and Co-Chair of its Special Interest Group on Digital Law. Recently, he has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Anna van Duin
researcher & lecturer in private law
University of Amsterdam
Anna van Duin is a researcher and lecturer specialising in Civil Procedure. She focuses on access to justice and effective remedies for private parties. She has a particular interest in the digital transformation of judicial decision-making and the role of technology in the civil justice system.
Anne Lafarre
Full Professor of Corporate Law and Finance
Tilburg University
Anne Lafarre is a full professor of corporate law and finance and serves as the Program Director for the Dutch Bachelor's specialization and Master's degrees in Ondernemingsrecht at Tilburg Law School. She also coordinates the research program Connecting Responsible Organizations and is a member of the management team of the Private, Business, and Labour Law (PBLL) department at Tilburg Law School. In 2017, she earned her PhD cum laude from Tilburg University. She was awarded a VENI research grant from the Dutch organization NWO to study the role of shareholders in sustainable companies (starting in autumn 2021). Within the research program Connecting Responsible Organizations, her work focuses on various topics, including corporate sustainability, sustainable corporate governance, sustainable finance, global value chains (GVCs) and corporate sustainability due diligence, and data analytics and empirical legal analysis, including topic modeling and statistical inference.
Bart van der Sloot
Associate Professor of Big Data & Privacy
Tilburg University
Philosopher and legal scholar Bart van der Sloot specialises in the area of Privacy and Big Data. He also publishes regularly on the liability of Internet Intermediaries, data protection and internet regulation. Key issues are the GDPR, international data flows, especially between Europe and the United States, and data leaks.
Belle Beems
PhD researcher on competition law & digital legal studies
Radboud University
Belle Beems is a phd candidate on competition law and digital legal studies at Radboud University nijmegen. her expertise lies in EU competition law, EU internal market law, Economic law, Digital markets, Law and technology.
Catalin Rusu
Associate Professor of European Law
Radboud University
Catalin Rusu is Associate Professor of European Law at Radboud University. Catalin’s research focuses on the interaction between traditional competition law tools and emerging frameworks, such as the Digital Markets Act and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, as well as on the multi-level enforcement of EU competition rules.
Charmian Lim
PHD researcher on law & artificial intelligence
Tilburg University
Charmian Lim is a phd researcher on law & Ai at Tilburg University. within the digital legal studies group, she is involved in a research project that explores the impact of AI, data science and automation on the legal system.
Chiara Gallese
Researcher
Tilburg University
I am a scholar working at the intersection between Law and Computer Science. After 2 years of maternity leave in The Netherlands, in 2021 I successfully worked at the Eindhoven University of Technology, working as first line for privacy and legal compliance of research projects. A Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA PF) allowed me to continue strengthening my profile and to build upon the insights gained during my career regarding the challenges and opportunities created by the use of health data. At the same time, it gave me the opportunity to develop my research agenda in new directions, especially in AI and Data Ethics in the medical field. I held several institutional responsibilities such as being vice-chair of the EEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, member of the SHIELD TC, the GPAI and AI Transparency Codes of Practice Working Groups (EU AI Office), and the IEEE Standards Association's P7999™ Series on AI Ethics Oversight.
Dorris de Vocht
Associate Professor in Criminal Law
Tilburg University
Dorris de Vocht (she/her) is as associate professor and member of the management team of the department of criminal law. She obtained her masters in criminal law (cum laude) as well as her doctorate at Maastricht University. Previous teaching and research experience involve different criminal (procedure) law fields with a strong focus on (comparative) criminal procedure. Dorris has been involved in several European studies on procedural safeguards such as the project 'Young Suspects in Interrogation'. Her current research explores the impact of communication technology and digital means in criminal courtrooms. She is a co-founder of the International Virtual Criminal Justice Network (www.virtualcriminaljustice.com). In addition to her work in academia, she also works as a substitute judge for the Limburg Court.
Elena Alina Onţanu
Assistant Professor at the Department of Private, Business and Labour Law
Tilburg University
Elena Alina Ontanu is Assistant professor at the Department of Private, Business and Labour Law. Before joining Tilburg Law School, she was Assistant professor or Private International Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Alina carried out her PhD research at Erasmus University on cross-border debt-recovery in the EU. During her PhD she was a visiting researcher at Clare College, Cambridge University (2012), Research Institute on Judicial Systems-National Research Council of Italy (2014), and Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (2015). She is a board member of the Judicial Administration Research Association (JAR-Association), a member of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and European Law Institute (ELI), and an editor of the EAPIL Blog. She has acted as expert for the Council of Europe and European Commission on matters of digitalisation and court procedures. Alina is a lawyer with the Bucharest Bar Association.
Enguerrand Marique
Assistant Professor in conflict solving institutions & digital conflict resolution
Radboud University
Enguerrand Marique is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Solving Institutions and Digital conflict resolution at Radboud University Nijmegen and a guest lecturer at the UCLouvain. His current research addresses conflict resolution between users and platforms.
Eric Tjong Tjin Tai
Professor of Private Law
Tilburg University
My path to the law has been somewhat uncommon. I started as a Computer Science engineer (Delft University of Technology), and after several years in business returned to university to study philosophy, and subsequently law (University of Amsterdam). Working as an advocate for over eight years, I specialized in Supreme Court litigation and IP/IT law. During this time I regularly published legal research articles. I defended my PhD thesis on Duties of care and ethics of care (Zorgplichten en zorgethiek) at the University of Amsterdam in 2007, after which I became a lecturer at Tilburg Law School. As of 2010 I am a full professor of private law. My last name is TJONG TJIN TAI (not Tai, as I often see), 张 精 泰 (which in current Pinyin would be Zhang Jing Tài)
Esther Keymolen
Professor in Digital Technology Regulation
Tilburg University
Esther Keymolen is professor in digital technology regulation at the tilburg institute for law, technology, and society (TILT). Her research focuses on how legal notions of liability, accountability and responsibility take shape in socio-technical contexts, and how these notions align or conflict with ethical values such as trust and trustworthiness.
Eva van der Graaf
PhD Researcher Digital Justice
University of Amsterdam
Eva van der Graaf is a PhD researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) and the Department of Jurisprudence (ARL, Amsterdam Law School). Her research combines philosophy and law, and focuses on the impact of digitalized and automated contexts on legal reasoning and (judicial) decision-making.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
Professor of ICT & Law
Radboud University
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius is professor of ICT and law. He works at the iHub, part of Radboud University in The Netherlands. The iHub is the interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society. Frederik is a law professor but teaches mostly at the computer science department. He teaches introductory courses to law and human rights, for bachelor and master students in computer science. His research predominantly concerns human rights, such as the right to privacy, to the protection of personal data, and to non-discrimination, in the context of new technologies. He often enriches legal research with insights from other disciplines. He has co-operated with, for instance, economists, computer scientists, and communication scholars. He is a member of the Meijers Committee, an independent group of experts in the field of European law. He is also a member of the editorial board of the European Data Protection Law Review, the Privacy Studies Journal, and of the Dutch journals Computerrecht (Computer Law) and the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (journal of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists). He regularly advises policymakers, and has given expert testimony, for instance at the Dutch and the European parliaments, and committees of the Council of Europe and the United Nations.
Friso Bostoen
Assistant Professor of Competition Law and Digital Regulation
Tilburg University
Friso Bostoen is an assistant professor of competition law and digital regulation at Tilburg University (from May 2023). He obtained his Ph.D. from KU Leuven as a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (2021) and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2022–23). Friso completed his initial legal studies at KU Leuven (2016) and went on to obtain an LL.M. degree from Harvard University as a Fulbright scholar (2019). Friso’s research focuses on the regulation of online platforms—and technology more broadly—under antitrust law and sectoral regulation. His work has resulted in numerous international publications and presentations. In addition, Friso edits the CoRe Blog and hosts the Monopoly Attack podcast. He has taught competition law at a variety of institutions including KU Leuven, the London School of Economics, Erasmus University (Rotterdam), Waseda University (Tokyo), and the University of Trento.
Giedo Jansen
Assistant professor in regulation of labour
University of Amsterdam
Giedo Jansen is Assistant Professor Regulation of Labour at the University of Amsterdam, AIAS-HSI. His research is multidisciplinary and spans various academic disciplines, including sociology, political science and labor relations. Currently, his research increasingly focuses on the 'future of work', and specifically studies how technological innovations (e.g., automation, digitalization, algorithmic management) transform work structures and power relations.
Gijs van Dijck
professor of private law
Maastricht University
Gijs van Dijck is an empirical legal scholar who specialises in tort law, insolvency law, and contract law. He uses empirical legal research methods and data sciences methods, network analysis in particular, to analyse legal issues. he co-manages the maastricht law & tech lab.
Giorgio Monti
Professor of Competition Law
Tilburg University
Giorgio is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School. He began his career in the UK (Leicester 1993-2001 and London School of Economics 2001-2010) before taking up the Chair in competition law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2010-2019). While at the EUI he helped establish the Florence Competition Program which carries out research and training for judges and executives. He also served as Head of the Law Department at the EUI. His principal field of research is competition law, a subject he enjoys tackling from an economic and a policy perspective. Together with Damian Chalmers and Gareth Davies he is a co-author of European Union Law: Text and Materials (4th ed, Cambridge University Press, 2019), one of the major texts on the subject. He is one of the editors of the Common Market Law Review.
Giovana Figueiredo Peluso Lopes
Postdoctoral Researcher on Fundamental Rights and Artificial Intelligence
Tilburg University
Giovana Peluso Lopes is a postdoctoral researcher on fundamental rights and artificial intelligence at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University (Netherlands). She holds a joint PhD in Law, Science, and Technology from the University of Bologna (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium) — where she was an affiliated research fellow at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP). Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and law, including the impact of AI on fundamental rights (including privacy and data protection, freedom of expression, and the right to a fair trial), the use of AI for decision-support, and the law and ethics of neurotechnologies.
Gustavo Arosemena
Assistant Professor of International and European Law
Maastricht University
Gustavo Arosemena is an assistant professor in the department of international and European Law at Maastricht University. He works in the field of human rights and legal reasoning. In particular, he is interested in conflicts and tradeoffs between human rights and their political implications, as well as case law analytics.
Hadassa Noorda
assistant professor of criminal law
University of Amsterdam
Hadassa Noorda is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam. She works in the area of philosophy of criminal law. Prior to joing the University of Amsterdam, Hadassa was a postdoctoral researcher at NYU's Center for Law and Philosophy, Columbia Law School, and Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy
Hannes Westermann
Assistant Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence
Maastricht University
Hannes Westermann is Assistant Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht University and the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab. His research focuses on the use of AI and generative AI to improve access to justice. He recently obtained his PhD from the Université de Montréal and the Cyberjustice Laboratory, where he developed JusticeBot, an innovative online platform that provides legal information to laypeople using AI. The platform has been used over 50,000 times. He has presented his research findings at international conferences and was awarded the “Best Paper Award” at JURIX 2020 and 2023. His work has also been featured in the Financial Times and Context.news.
Hellen van der Kroef
PhD candidate in digital legal studies
Maastricht University
Hellen van der Kroef is a PhD researcher on the use of multilingual legal knowledge graphs to assist in EU law-making. She completed a double master's degree in European and International Law at respectively the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Toulouse. Additionally, she followed a well-credited course in web development at a private institution in Amsterdam, after which she worked as a programmer until starting her PhD.
Ilaria Buri
associate researcher digital services act observatory
University of Amsterdam
Ilaria Buri is as an associate researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), where her activity is focused on the Digital Services Act Observatory. Prior to joining IViR, Ilaria was a researcher at the University of Leuven (CITIP), where she worked on several EU-funded projects dealing with data protection, cybersecurity and e-health-related matters.
Inge Graef
Associate Professor of Competition Law
Tilburg University
Inge Graef is Associate Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University. She is the Vice Dean for Research at Tilburg Law School and the director of the Tilburg Graduate Law School. Inge is affiliated with the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). Her work involves the domains of competition law, platform regulation and the governance of data-driven innovation. Inge comments and advises on new legislative and policy initiatives with regard to the regulation of digital services, innovation and data, including the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Governance Act and the Data Act.
Jef Ausloos
Assistant Professor of privacy & data rights
University of Amsterdam
Jef Ausloos is an assistant professor at the Institute for Information Law and. His work centres around several information law issues, and in particular data protection, data rights, transparency, and governance of digital infrastructures.
Jerry Spanakis
assistant professor in machine learning
Maastricht University
Jerry Spanakis is an assistant professor at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University and the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab. His current research lies in the area of Social Machine Learning.
Jill Toh
PhD researcher on Platform regulation
University of Amsterdam
Jill Toh is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR). Her work looks at the concept and power of online platforms through technology, law and political economy approaches, in order to explore new regulatory forms of data governance.
Johanna Gunawan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Law
Maastricht University
Johanna Gunawan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Law, affiliated with the Law and Tech Lab at Maastricht University's Faculty of Law. Johanna's research unites computer science with law and policy, focusing on the intersection of human-computer interaction, design, and consumer protections. Most recently, her research investigates dark patterns' (interface designs interfering with user autonomy towards undesired outcomes) deployment and regulation, privacy and surveillance, and digital asymmetries. Her work has been published in top venues across disciplines, including the Washington University Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, CHI, CSCW, and CSLAW. This work has also been cited by the OECD, U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Johanna's research is additionally informed by extensive industry experience in cybersecurity, UX, privacy, and compliance, spanning positions at Akamai Technologies, Rapid7 LLC, Vimeo Inc., and Common Sense Media. Previously, Johanna received her B.A. in Political Science and International Affairs (minoring in Japanese and East Asian Studies) at Northeastern University's College of Social Sciences and Humanities, then her M.S. in Cybersecurity as an ALIGN Scholar at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She was a Visiting Ph.D. Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in 2023. In 2024, she received her Ph.D. in Cybersecurity at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, working under Professors David Choffnes, Christo Wilson, and Woodrow Hartzog.
Joris van Hoboken
professor of law & data protection
University of Amsterdam
Joris van Hoboken is a professor of law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and a Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR). his research focuses on the regulation of computational infrastructures and the protection of fundamental rights.
Kamil Szostak
PhD candidate
Maastricht University
Kamil Szostak is a PhD candidate at Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, where he researches the extraterritorial scope of EU digital legislation. His interests include the legal regulation of information technology, particularly artificial intelligence. His work combines a normative perspective with an empirical approach to legal studies. Kamil holds degrees in Law (a five-year integrated Master’s program) and Computer Science (a three-and-a-half-year Engineering program), both awarded by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He has also studied at Poznan University of Technology, the University of Malta, the Warsaw School of Economics, and the Universidade Portucalense. Prior to starting his PhD in October 2024, he gained experience during internships at several international law firms in Warsaw, working on technology and regulatory matters.
Konrad Kollnig
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Maastricht University
Konrad Kollnig is an assistant professor at Maastricht University's Law & Tech Lab (Faculty of Law), with a background in computer science (PhD Oxford). He leads the Comp4Good research initiative, an interdisciplinary research team dedicated to designing and governing digital technologies for social good. His work spans AI regulation, the impact of online platforms on society, and resilience in digital infrastructure. He has also been a mobile app developer for about 15 years.
Ljubiša Metikoš
PhD researcher Digital Justice
University of Amsterdam
Ljubiša Metikoš is a PhD Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR), the RPA HumaneAI and the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence. He researches the social implications and the underlying values of automated decision making by the state from a regulatory and (legal) philosophical perspective.
Lorenzo Dalla Corte
Assistant Professor in Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law
Tilburg University
Dr. Lorenzo Dalla Corte is an Assistant Professor in Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT). His current research focuses on the legitimacy of measures limiting the rights to the respect for private life and to personal data protection, particularly vis-à-vis surveillance, data retention, and (cyber)security issues. Before (re)joining TILT, Lorenzo was a honorary lecturer at the Australian National University (College of Law), and worked as a doctoral researcher at TU Delft (A+BE), and as a researcher at Tilburg Law School. Lorenzo holds a PhD and a LLM from Tilburg Law School, and a Laurea Quinquennale in Legge from LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, IT).
Magdalena Brewczyńska
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tilburg University
Dr. Magdalena (Magda) Brewczyńska is a postdoctoral researcher in AlgoSoc Project. She examines the relationship between values underpinning fundamental rights – such as dignity, equality, or fairness – and access to justice with a view of conceptualising the notion of ‘justice rights’. This allows her to analyse how and to what degree justice rights are currently being challenged by the automated decision-making systems (ADS) and what measures should be taken to extend rather than limit citizens' access to justice in modern democratic societies. Prior to the postdoctoral project, Magda was exploring the problem of public-private collaboration through personal data sharing in the context of criminal law enforcement and security and of the reconciliation of the Anti-Money Laundering policy and the rights to privacy and personal data protection. Her work resulted in a doctoral dissertation "Policing via banks: the question of legitimacy of personal data sharing".
Marc van der Ham
Researcher
Tilburg University
My research focuses on the impact of digital technologies on fundamental rights, with expertise in cybercrime investigations, access to electronic evidence, cross-border judicial cooperation and public-private partnerships. I am currently developing my expertise on the regulation of AI and its links to EU cybersecurity and cyber resilience policies. After 18+ years across government (European Parliament, Dutch Public Prosecution Service) and corporate roles (Stek Lawyers, Google, Deloitte Legal), I am now transitioning into academia, drawing on this experience to combine doctrinal analysis with practical insight and a holistic approach to my work. I supervise LLB and LLM theses and lecture in the cybercrime course for the Master's in Law and Digital Technologies at TILT. I am also finalising my PhD at eLaw, Leiden University, which explores possible additional legal assistance obligations for IT infrastructure companies in criminal investigations into disruptive cybercrime. Links
Marco Bassini
Assistant Professor of Fundamental Rights and Artificial Intelligence
Tilburg University
I joined Tilburg University in February 2023 as an assistant professor of Fundamental Rights and Artificial Intelligence. Previously, I served as assistant professor of Comparative Law at Tuscia University and adjunct professor of Constitutional Law and Internet Law at Bocconi University, where I also was the coordinator for the LLM program in Law of Internet Technology from 2020 to 2022. From 2017 to 2021, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Bocconi University. In 2016 I was a post-doctoral Emile Noel Fellow at New York University. I obtained my PhD in Constitutional Law and European Law from the University of Verona in 2016 and my degree in Law from Bocconi University in 2010. In 2018 I was awarded the “Vittorio Frosini” Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of information technology law defended in 2015-16. My research interests include, among others: protection of human rights in the digital age, regulatory strategies for technology, populism and the Internet.
Marvin van Bekkum
PhD researcher on AI & non-discrimination
Radboud University
Marvin van Bekkum studied both Law and Computing Science at Radboud University. He works as a PhD Candidate at the Interdisciplinary Research Hub on Digitalization and Society (iHub) at Radboud University. His research focuses on Non-discrimination by and Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance Sector.
Mattis van ‘t Schip
phd researcher on the cybersecurity & privacy regulation of internet of things devices
Radboud University
Mattis van 't Schip is a PhD researcher at Radboud University on the cybersecurity and privacy regulation of Internet of Things devices. Primarily, his research focuses on the landscape of European cybersecurity regulation and how the European Union aims to evolve this landscape.
Michelle Liu
Phd candidate regarding Digital Vulnerabilities in European and Chinese Law
Radboud University
Michelle Liu is a PhD candidate at the Radboud Business Law Institute. She researches new forms of vulnerability of consumers that come with digitalisation, amongst them social media addiction. Her PhD thesis will deal with digital vulnerability in EU law and Chinese law.
Mindy Duffourc
Assistant Professor of Private Law
Maastricht University
Mindy is an Assistant Professor of Private Law and a member of the Law and Tech Lab. She researches in the area of comparative health law and technology. Her recent work has appeared in JAMA, NPJ Digital Medicine, Stanford Technology Law Review, American Journal of Law and Medicine, Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, and Springer’s Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law book. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State Dickinson Law for EU Horizon funded project CLASSICA, and a Lecturer in civil procedure and health law at the University of Passau in Germany. She also served as an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow conducting comparative health law and risk management research and as a Joachim Herz Fellow at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg researching liability for AI in medicine. Mindy received her bachelor's degree (B.A.) from Louisiana Tech University, where she majored in Political Science and minored in English. She received her juris doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law and subsequently practiced law for 12 years as a member of the bar in Illinois and Louisiana. She completed her doctoral work (Dr. Jur.) at the University of Passau on the topic Liability for Negligent Risk Management in the United States and Germany.
Mireille van Eechoud
PROFESSOR OF information law
University of Amsterdam
Mireille van Eechoud is professor of Information Law, and director of the Amsterdam Graduate School of Law. Her key research themes include the relationship between constitutional rights to information, data protection, and the commercial use of public sector information.
Naomi Appelman
pHd researcher on online speech regulation
University of Amsterdam
Naomi Appelman is a PhD researcher at the Amsterdam Institute of Information Law (IViR), specialising in online speech regulation. Her research combines law and philosophy and focuses on strengthening the legal position of users by means of enabling legal contestation of the control over online speech.
Paddy Leerssen
PhD candidate in law
University of Amsterdam
Paddy Leerssen is a PhD Candidate in Law with a broad interest in media and communications law. His PhD project explores how European law shapes the transparency and accountability of algorithmic content distribution in social media platforms. To this end the combines legal analysis with insights from communications science and media studies. Paddy is also a non-resident fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, where he was a research fellow in 2017-2018.
Paolo Belloni
PhD Candidate at Tilburg Law School
Tilburg University
Paolo Belloni is a PhD candidate at the Department of Criminal Law at Tilburg Law School. In his research, he investigates the fairness of criminal trials for defendants taking part in the proceedings remotely through videoconferencing platforms.
Pieter Wolters
associate PROFESSOR OF private law, privacy & cyber security
Radboud University
Pieter Wolters is an associate professor of cybersecurity, privacy and law. His research topics include the private enforcement of privacy law, legal obligations to provide secure software, and the European framework for cybersecurity and privacy rules.
Pietro Ortolani
Professor of Digital Conflict Resolution
Radboud University
Pietro Ortolani is a Professor of Digital Conflict Resolution at Radboud University. Before joining Radboud University, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and a Law Research Associate at Queen Mary, University of London. He has acted as an expert for the European Parliament, the European Commission, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Pratiksha Ashok
Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University
Tilburg University
Pratiksha is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University for the EU Horizon 2020 project AI4POL and is affiliated with Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). She holds a PhD in consumer protection and data rights on collaborative economy platforms from UC Louvain, Belgium. She has a double degree in Business Administration and Law and a Masters in Corporate and Commercial Law from India. Her second masters is a Master of Corporate Law, University of Cambridge, UK. She is a qualified lawyer in her home state of Karnataka and the Bar Council of India. Equal parts lawyer and researcher, she chases algorithms across borders, asking inconvenient questions about AI, data, and who really holds the power.
Rachel Rietveld
PhD researcher on AI in the justice system
University of Amsterdam
Rachel Rietveld focuses on the intersection of law and technology, both in her practice and her research. She develops expert systems in order to make law more accessible. Her PhD research is on the potential and limitations of legal tech, ethical dilemmas and how to build a framework for the legal use of artificial intelligence.
Raphaël Gellert
Assistant professor in ict and private law
Radboud University
Raphaël Gellert is an assistant professor in private law and ICT. Looking into the computational turn, his research tries to problematise the contemporary modes of operation of law. In this ambit he looks at cases stemming from data protection, e-commerce, product liability, or cybersecurity.
Ray Johns
PhD student
Maastricht University
Ray works at the intersection of law, linguistics, and computer science.
Rodrigo Vallejo
Associate Professor of Energy Law and Regulation for the Digital and Green Transitions
Tilburg University
Rodrigo Vallejo is Associate Professor of Energy Law and Regulation for the Digital and Green Transitions at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society. He has over twenty years of research, teaching, and advisory experience for governments, industry, and NGOs in several areas of business law, public-private relations, and regulated markets across Europe and Latin America. Rodrigo currently leads a VENI-funded project by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) exploring innovative legal frameworks to support Europe’s shift toward digitalized and sustainable markets (2025-2028). Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at Copenhagen Law School (2022–2025), researching sustainable finance law and governance of capital markets. He also worked as Assistant Professor at Amsterdam Law School (2020–2025) and held research affiliations on global economic law at the European University Institute as a Hans Kelsen Fellow (2015–2020) and at NYU Law School as a Fulbright Scholar (2012–2015).
Roland Moerland
Associate Professor of Supranational Criminology
Maastricht University
Roland Moerland is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Maastricht University. His research focuses on gross human rights violations and state (corporate) crime. He also has a special interest in how processes of denial facilitate the perpetration of such crimes.
Ronald Leenes
Professor of Regulation by Technology
Tilburg University
Prof.dr. Ronald Leenes (1964) is full professor in Regulation by Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University). He the Academic Director for the Law & Technology Master's programme and other TILT provided education since Jan/Jun 2025. He is interested in many things in the Law & Technology landscape and have worked and published on many aspects of Cyberspace regulation. More specifically he has worked on regulatory governance of technology and innovation, techno-regulation, conceptual issues with respect to privacy, data protection, data analytics, robotics, AI, and human enhancement. His current work mostly concerns regulatory governance and regulatory failure in sociotechnical change.
Seema Mohammed Murtuza
PhD Candidate in EU Twin Transition
Radboud University
Seema is a PhD researcher in EU law focusing on the twin transition — the green and digital transition. Her research examines how law can be used to facilitate the twin transition, using the right to repair smartphones as a case study. She is particularly interested in the interplay between law, sustainability, and digitalisation.
Shweta Reddy Degalahal
PhD researcher on informational privacy & data protection
Tilburg University
Shweta Reddy Degalahal is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University, focusing on the need to expand the informational privacy rights of individuals to the digital public sphere.
Sjors Ligthart
Associate Professor of Criminal Law
Tilburg University
Sjors Ligthart is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Principal Investigator of the project Mental Liberty in the Age of Modern Technology: Towards Absolute Protection of the Mind? (TAPOM project). The primary focus of his research is on how the law, particularly human rights law and criminal law, protect our mental freedom. He has special interest in the right to freedom of thought, the right to mental integrity, and the right to mental privacy, especially in relation to the regulation of neurotechnologies, digital technologies and psychoactive substances. Since December 2021, works as a postdoc at Utrecht University, on the NWO Vici-grant 'Law and Ethics of Neurotechnology in Criminal Justice (LENC project, 2021-2026) He is one of the conveners of the European Expert Group on Emerging Technologies and Human Rights (HURUT) and of the Psychedelic Law Salon: Conversations on Psychedelics, Law, and Society
Sofia Santinello
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tilburg University
I am a postdoctoral researcher in Cybersecurity Law and Data Governance, working on the NWO-funded project NEPTARGOS. I obtained my PhD in International, Private, and Labor Law (Private Law curriculum) from the University of Padua (Italy) in 2023. During my doctoral studies, I spent periods of research at the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne in Paris and the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law at McGill University in Montreal, where I also studied data trusts. My research method consists of applying Private Law concepts and institutions to technological contexts, with a focus on assessing whether—and how—general Private Law categories can be adapted to emerging technologies.
Stijn Adams
PhD Candidate
Tilburg University
In 2019, I earned my master's degree in criminal law (cum laude) from Radboud University Nijmegen. I then worked at a criminal law firm in Amsterdam and Den Bosch before becoming a lecturer in criminal law at Tilburg University, where I secured a PhD scholarship. My doctoral research examines the role of criminal law in addressing ransomware attacks and mitigating their impact.
Sunimal Mendis
Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law
Tilburg University
Sunimal Mendis is Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. ). She holds a PhD magna cum laude in Intellectual Property Law from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI), Munich, Germany (awarded by the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich). Her research focuses on the interface between copyright law, technological innovation and the digital economy with a particular emphasis on core technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big-data and digitization.
Suzanne Nusselder
PhD Candidate
Tilburg University
Suzanne Nusselder is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University). Her research focuses on the interplay and reconciliation of data protection and cybersecurity law. Her PhD is part of the NWO-funded INTERSECT project on the cybersecurity of the internet of things.
Tom Vennmanns
PHD researcher on smart contracts & conflict resolution
Radboud University
Tom Vennmanns is a PhD candidate in smart contracts and conflict resolution, who focuses on the legal and societal challenges of the digital age. His research interests include AI, legal tech and Blockchain technology.
Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Markova
PhD Researcher on Anonymity and Authenticity on Online Platforms
Radboud University
Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Markova is a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Her research focuses on the intersection of interests in user anonymity and authentication methods on social media platforms. Besides, Lisa’s professional interests include data protection, the regulation of emerging technologies and online platforms in the EU.
