I am a Professor of Law, Innovation, and Technology at Utrecht University’s School of Law. I joined Utrecht University following previous positions at Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society (TILT), the Netherlands. My research focuses on how to understand and tackle socio-technical change related to information technologies in areas including data protection law, data ownership, data law and (collective) governance. I was awarded a 2016 ERC Starting Grant and recently completed an ERC project that proposed how legal protection against information-related problems, including data protection law, should be reformed based on understanding of information and data in information studies and economics. I am the author of Property rights in personal data: a European perspective (Kluwer Law International 2011, open access) and “The law of everything. Broad concept of personal data and future of EU data protection law” (LIT, 2018). My recent academic publications include “Code as personal data: implications for data protection law and regulation of algorithms” (2023, with Ronald Leenes), “From knowing by name to targeting: the meaning of identification under the GDPR” (2022) and “Data as an economic good, data as a commons, and data governance” (2024, with Gijs van Maanen). I am on the editorial boards of Technology and Regulation, Computer Law & Security Review, Global Privacy Law Review, and Utrecht Law Review. I hold a PhD (cum laude) from Tilburg University, MSc from Leiden University and LLM from Central European University.