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  • Warandelaan 2, Montesquieu Building, room M 728

    5037 AB Tilburg

    Netherlands

1995 …2025

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Research interests

Bert-Jaap Koops researches the interaction between technology and law, in particular criminal law and regulation issues. His main research fields are cybercrime, cyber-investigation, privacy, and data protection. He is also interested in topics such as DNA forensics, identity, digital constitutional rights, 'code as law', and regulatory implications of human enhancement, genetics, robotics, and neuroscience.

With a personal postdoc (1999), VIDI (2003) and VICI (2014) grant, Koops is one of the few Dutch researchers who received all three stages of NWO's (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) personal research-grant scheme. From 2005-2010, he was a member of De Jonge Akademie, a young-researcher branch of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the 2016/2017 academic year, he was Distinguished Lorentz Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).

Career

  • 2006-present: professor of regulation and technology, Tilburg University (full-time from 2006-2019, since 2019 for 0.2 fte)
  • 2000-2005: associate professor, Tilburg University
  • 1998-2000: postdoc, Tilburg University
  • 1994-1998: PhD candidate, Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

External positions

Freelance art historian (Artesto)

1 Oct 2022 → …

Internship (Dordrechts Museum)

1 Apr 202230 Jun 2022

Member advisory board (Bits of freedom)

1 Jan 20091 Oct 2017

Chair of board (stichting oophaga)

1 Apr 20071 Jan 2015

Keywords

  • Computer Crime
  • Cyber-investigation
  • Privacy
  • Data Protection
  • ICT Law
  • Regulation

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