Dr. Marco BASSINI
Marco Bassini is assistant professor of Fundamental Rights and Artificial Intelligence at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society – Tilburg University. Previously, he served as adjunct professor of Constitutional Law and Internet Law at Bocconi University, where he also was appointed coordinator for the LLM program in Law of Internet Technology from 2020 to 2022. From 2017 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University. In 2016 he was a postdoctoral Emile Noël Fellow at New York University and he obtained his PhD in Constitutional Law and European Law from the University of Verona. For over a decade Marco has combined his academic career with legal practice, working at international law firms in Milan and Rome and serving as data protection officer with leading companies. He also served as external advisor, among others, to the Italian Communications Authority and to the Italian Ministry for Technological Innovation. Marco’s research interests include: protection of human rights in the digital age, regulatory strategies for technology, populism and the Internet.
Dr. Stephanie Bijlmakers is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, and a member of TILT and TILEC. Bijlmakers has more than six years of experience conducting research and teaching on institutional and substantive aspects of standardization, supply chain regulation and corporate sustainability. Dr. Bijlmakers is recipient of a Starter Grant to conduct research on human rights protection and resilience in the global semi-conductor value chain, and the responsible sourcing of critical minerals, in the context of a just energy and digital transition.
Dr. Konrad BOROWICZ
Dr. Konrad Borowicz is an academic macro lawyer with prior experience in legal practice, qualified in New York and later worked in the City of London. He holds a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School, a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute, and an LLM from Duke Law School, while he obtained his first law degree from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, his hometown. Currently, Konrad is an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) and a Research Coordinator at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His research looks at debtor and creditor rights, mainly from a law and macro finance perspective as well as at the regulation of financial markets and technology, mainly from a law and political economy perspective.
Dr. Friso BOSTOEN
Friso Bostoen is an assistant professor of competition law and digital regulation at Tilburg University. Previously, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2022–23). He holds degrees from KU Leuven (LL.M. and Ph.D.) and Harvard (LL.M.). 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.
Dr. Lorenzo DALLA CORTE
Lorenzo Dalla Corte is an Assistant Professor in Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT). He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TILT and as a researcher at both Tilburg University and Delft University of Technology. He also held an honorary lectureship at the Australian National University, College of Law, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa. Lorenzo holds a doctorate and an L.L.M from Tilburg Law School, and a Laureau Quinquennale in Legge (5-year Master of Law) from LUISS Guido Carli. Lorenzo’s field of expertise is the interaction between technology and fundamental rights, eminently privacy, data protection, and security. He regularly publishes in edited books and journals, and speaks at conferences, workshops and symposia. Lorenzo has lectured on a variety of topics related to law and technology and coordinates the MSc course ‘Data Science: Privacy, Security, and Sustainability’.
Prof. Dr. Panos DELIMATSIS
Professor Panos Delimatsis holds the Chair of European and International Economic Law and is Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Prof. Delimatsis is a renowned expert in the regulation of services trade and market governance. He is the Principal Investigator of a prestigious grant (awarded by the European Research Council) examining the resilience of private rule-makers in the fields of manufacturing and finance, using interdisciplinary methods. Prof. Delimatsis’ current research interests include the regulation of services, the governance and rules of sustainable standard-setting and the regulation of the financial sector at the transnational level. His teaching focuses on international trade regulation, the regulation of economic activity in Europe as well as trade and development. On those topics, he has consulted for States, international organizations and companies. Prof. Delimatsis read law in Greece (Democritus University of Thrace), Germany (University of Saarland), and Switzerland (University of Neuchatel). In 2015-16, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, USA.
Brenda ESPINOSA
Brenda Espinosa is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated to the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University’s Law School (the Netherlands). She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Universidad Externado de Colombia and an LLM diploma in International Business Law from Tilburg University. She will soon receive her doctoral degree at the same University with her dissertation ‘Dealing with data: A study on the legal challenges of data-driven innovation and data sharing in the digitalized utilities and how to address them’. Brenda’s PhD research (2018-2022) was part of ‘LONGA VIA’, a four-year research project sponsored by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Next Generation Infrastructures (NGInfra), a knowledge platform created by six operators of critical infrastructures in the Netherlands. As of July 2022, Brenda has joined the research project ‘MEGAMIND’ (also sponsored by NWO) as postdoctoral researcher, to investigate the legal and ethical challenges of using Artificial Intelligence in the context of smart electricity grids. Brenda’s field of expertise and interest include business law, law and technology, the regulation of network industries and data governance.
Dr. Inge GRAEF
Inge Graef is Associate Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University. She is affiliated to the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC).
Inge is an associate editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics and a member of the international editorial board of Telecommunications Policy.
Beyond her academic activities, she is appointed as a member of the European Commission’s expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy.
Chiara Gallese is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin’s Law Department. She is a member of the four working groups for the drafting of the first General Purpose AI Code of Practice established by the AI Office. Her research focuses on AI and Law, Data Ethics, and Data Protection
Paul De Hert holds the chair of ‘Criminal Law’, ‘International and European Criminal Law’ and ‘Historical introduction to eight major constitutional systems’ at Vrije University of Brussels (VUB). He is Director of the VUB-Research group on Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC), Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (Metajuridics) and core member of the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society Studies (LSTS) of the VUB. He is an Associate Professor at Institute of Law and Technology at the Tilburg University (TILT). He is member of the core programming committee of the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection Conference.
Dr. Irene KAMARA
Irene works as an Assistant Professor Cybercrime Law and Human Rights at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society. She is an affiliate researcher at the Law & Criminology department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Irene is coordinating and teaching the Cybercrime course at the LLM program Law & Technology of the Tilburg Law School, and she is teaching human rights, standardisation and disruptive technologies at bachelor and master programs. Irene has conducted research for the European Commission, the Dutch National Cyber Security Agency, the European Cybersecurity Agency ENISA, the Dutch Ministry of Justice, and others. She is also invited by the European Commission as external expert evaluator of EU funded proposals on societal security. Irene is selected as a member of the ENISA Experts List for assisting the implementation of its Annual Work Programme and a member of the CEN-CENELEC/BTWG 5 ‘STAIR’ on Standardization, Innovation and Research. She participates in the NEN Technical Committee on Privacy and Cybersecurity contributing to the developments of Dutch, European, and international standards. Last year, Irene was the winner of the 2021 Standards Innovation Individual Researcher award of the European Standardisation Organizations. Irene is publishing regularly at international and European peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes by Oxford University Press, Hart Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar, and others. As of September 2022, Irene is TILT’s new research coordinator. Irene is admitted to the Athens Bar Association as a qualified attorney-at-law and was practising for several years before joining academia. She has obtained a joint doctorate degree by Tilburg University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, an LLM on Law and Technology (Tilburg University, cum laude), a Master in Science in International and European Relations (Piraeus University) and a Bachelor in Laws (Democritus University of Thrace).
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rof. Dr. Eleni KOSTA
Eleni Kosta is full Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands). Eleni is conducting research on human rights with a focus on privacy and data protection, specialising in electronic communications and new technologies. She has been involved in numerous EU research projects. In 2014 Eleni was awarded a personal research grant for research on privacy and surveillance by the Dutch Research Organisation (VENI/NWO). She is member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch digital rights organisation, Bits of Freedom, and an observer to the Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (EFIPPP). She is a member of editorial boards of academic journals (EDPL, IRLCT etc.) and conferences and workshops scientific and organising committees (CPDP, ISP etc.). Eleni also collaborates as associate with timelex (www.timelex.eu).
Prof. Dr. Ronald LEENES
Ronald has taught at universities since 1994 in all stages of academic scholarship (Ba, Ma, PhD, post-academic/executive) and to a wide range of students, social scientists, law students, engineers and professionals. He has covered a wide range of legal domains, from encyclopedia of law to data protection and privacy. In the last seven years he is focusing his teaching on regulation of technology in general, and on regulation by technology (techno-regulation). Particular application domains he uses as case studies are AI and robotics, privacy by design and smart environments. He has given many keynotes at international conferences and guest lectures both in The Netherlands and abroad. Ronald has been the director of TILT for 7.5 until March 2022. His current academic research is oriented towards mechanisms of regulating socio-technical change, regulatory failure and regulatory disconnect, and legal disruption by technology (in particular AI). Ronald has a background Public Administration (University of Twente) and received his PhD on a thesis on hard cases in law and AI and law. He has led and worked on many EU Framework projects as well as projects commissioned by the European Commission and Dutch government. He has given evidence to the Dutch Parliament and the European Parliament. He has (co-)edited over 20 books, and (co-) written well over 150 articles and book chapters.
Dr. Sunimal MENDIS
Sunimal Mendis teaches the ‘Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law’ course within the Master’s in Law and Technology (LLM) program at the Tilburg Law School. She is also a guest lecturer in IP law at TU Eindhoven and the Jheronimus Academy of Data Sciences (JADS) in 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 Maximillians University of Munich). Prior to her appointment at Tilburg University, she worked as a researcher in the ERC Inclusive project at the Science Po Law School, Paris, France and as a post-doctoral researcher at the CEIPI, University of Strasbourg, France and was a Fellow of the 2020 Research Sprint on AI and Platform Governance organized by the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin. Her current research focuses on the fundamental rights implications of copyright enforcement on online social media platforms and the need to reform the current EU law framework on platform governance to foster robust democratic discourse in the digital public sphere. 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.
Dr. Gert MEYERS
Dr. Gert Meyers joined TILT in 2020 and is Assistant Professor (UD) on digitalization of health and wellbeing. Gert is a master in philosophy, sociology and policy economics and obtained his PhD degree in sociology at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research topics have been the emergence of big data in the institutions such as insurance and healthcare, behaviour-based personalization and their effects on solidarity in insurance, and the implementation of blockchain projects by the Dutch government. Currently he focuses on how the introduction of new digital technologies in healthcare practices reconfigures values such as responsibility, fairness, solidarity and doctor-patient confidentiality. Within TILT, Gert is part of the governance team and the interdisciplinary and interfaculty sector plan team on the digitalization of health and wellbeing.
Prof. Dr. Lokke MOEREL
Among the world’s best-known privacy & cyber advisers, prof. dr. Lokke Moerel is an Of Counsel at the Belgian branch of Morrison Foerster and is regularly called upon by some of the world’s most complex multinational organizations to confront their global privacy and ethical challenges when implementing new technologies and digital business models and to assist them with their global cyber security incident response and regulatory investigations. Lokke is also a full professor of Global ICT law at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), where she teaches global data protection and new technologies. Lokke is widely recognized as the leading global expert on BCR and authored Binding Corporate Rules, Corporate Self-Regulation of Global Data Transfers, published by Oxford University Press in 2012, which is considered the leading textbook on BCR. She is MoFo’s lead counsel on BCR and co-heads the Global Privacy Group (GPG), a working group of chief privacy officers and in-house lawyers at leading European multinationals, which developed a set of Binding Corporate Rules (BCR), that have received EU-wide approval. Lokke is a member of the Dutch Cyber Security Council, the advisory body of the Dutch cabinet on cybersecurity and also provides cyber security advice to the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation. Lokke has represented companies in some of the largest global data breaches, and in inquiries and investigations before regulatory authorities worldwide. Lokke is an authority on AI, big data and the Internet of Things. In February 2014, she accepted her professorship at the University of Tilburg with the inaugural speech: ‘Big Data Protection: How to Make the Draft EU Regulation on Data Protection Future Proof’. She was further appointed to co-author the 2016 report for the Dutch Lawyers Society (under the auspices of the Dutch Supreme Court) on the societal impact of the digital age: ‘Privacy for the Homo Digitalis: Proposal for a New Regulatory Framework for Data Protection in the Light of Big Data and the Internet of Things’. Lokke practiced data protection in the Netherlands for over 25 years and was consistently ranked in Band 1 by Chambers for the Netherlands. After joining Morrison & Foerster’s Berlin office in 2015, she was ranked Band 1 in Chambers Europe 2015: ‘She has a formidable reputation in the field of data protection, advising numerous blue-chip clients’. Lokke received the 2018 International Law Office Client Choice Award for Best Internet & Technology lawyer Germany and the 2018 Acquisition International Global Excellence Award for Most Influential Woman in Data Protection Law.
Prof. Dr. Giorgio MONTI
Giorgio Monti is Professor of Competition Law at the Tilburg University and research fellow at the Center for Regulation in Europe. He has held positions at the London School of Economics and the European University Institute. He has 30 years of experience in researching and teaching law, with expertise in EU, UK and US competition law in particular. As scientific director of the Florence Competition Programme he helped devise a successful judicial training programme, which attracts judges from all EU Member States. He has provided policy reports on a number of EU initiatives, including the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the Digital Markets Act. He is the co-author of one of the leading student books on EU Law and a joint editor of one of the principal journals in the field: the Common Market Law Review.
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 and KU Leuven — 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, the use of AI in the judiciary, and the law and ethics of neurotechnologies. She is a qualified lawyer in Brazil, and has worked as a consultant providing legal advice on privacy and data protection regulations.
Tjaša PETROČNIK
Tjaša is a PhD Candidate at Tilburg Law School, affiliated with the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), and a member of the Digital Legal Lab (Law Sector Plan, SSH). Her research interests include the regulation of health data, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms, examining in particular the market regulation and health policy aspects. Prior to her PhD studies, Tjaša obtained LLMs in EU Law and Law and Technology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She also holds a BA and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Before her current academic position, Tjaša worked for almost five years in EU communications and public affairs in both Brussels and Ljubljana, most recently with a focus on EU research and innovation policy, regulation, and funding in the area of life sciences
Manos ROUSSOS
Manos Roussos is a PhD researcher of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). He holds an LL.M. (cum laude) in Law & Technology (2022) from the Tilburg University, an M.Sc. in Business for Lawyers (2019) from ALBA Graduate Business School – ACG and an LL.B. (2017) from the Democritus University of Thrace. Manos is a qualified attorney-at-law and prior to joining TILT, he was a practicing lawyer in Greece, having experience in corporate and data protection matters, as well as litigation. In TILT, his doctoral research focuses on transatlantic data transfers between the EU and the US for anti-money laundering purposes.
Prof. Dr. Linnet TAYLOR
Linnet Taylor is Professor of International Data Governance at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on digital data, representation and democracy, with particular attention to transnational governance issues. Her work on group privacy and data justice is used in discussions of technology governance in countries around the world. She leads the ERC Global Data Justice project, which aims to develop a social-justice-informed framework for governance of data technologies on the global level. The research is based on insights from technology users, providers and civil society organisations around the world. Her work is also currently supported by the Luminate foundation and the EU AI Fund. She is a member of the Dutch Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) and a co-chair of the NWO’s Social Science roundtable advisory group.
Dr. Bart VAN DER SLOOT
Bart van der Sloot specializes in the area of Privacy and Big Data. He also publishes regularly on the liability of Internet Intermediaries, data protection and internet regulation. He has studied both philosophy (BA; MA) and law (BA; MA) in the Netherlands and Italy, also successfully completing the Honours Research Programme. He is an associate professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society of the University of Tilburg, Netherlands. Bart formerly worked for the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, where he wrote his PhD on privacy and virtue ethics, and for the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) (part of the Prime Minister’s Office of the Netherlands) to co-author a report on the regulation of Big Data. Bart van der Sloot is the general editor of the international privacy journal European Data Protection Law Review. He also served as the director of the Privacy & Identity Lab between 2016-2021. Between 2010-2020, he was the founder and coordinator of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR), the minor Privacy Studies and the Amsterdam Privacy Conferences 2012, 2015 and 2018. Bart was awarded two highly prestigious research stipends by the Dutch Scientific Organisation. The Top Talent Research Grant fully covered his Phd project and the Veni grant (2021-2025) covers a research project called: the right to be let alone … by yourself.
is a PhD researcher of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). Her PhD is focusing on the impact of emerging technologies on freedom of thought and her fields of expertise include human rights and new technologies, business and human rights, data protection and privacy.
Alexandra is a licensed lawyer in Greece and holds an LL.M. on International Human Rights Law from Essex University and an LL.M. on Public International Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has worked on data protection law in various institutions, such as the Data Protection Unit of the Council of the European Union and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, enabling her to develop a multifaceted approach. She has worked as a Research Officer in the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project (HRBDT) at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex and has been involved in EU funded research projects focusing on data protection and ethics, collaborating with the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA) and lately with MPLegal law firm.
