Expertise
A dual mind: legal precision, scientific method.
Trained in both law and psychology, I move fluently between doctrinal reasoning, empirical analysis, and the engineering of practical tools. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Legal & Regulatory Analysis
I assess technology against the legal frameworks that govern it, and translate that assessment into responsible-implementation advice. My work spans Dutch (criminal) courts, the ECtHR, the CJEU, EU law and ECHR doctrine — always with an eye for the definitional nuance that decides a case.
Scientific & Analytical Method
I was lead author of a peer-reviewed neuroscientific article, including the data analysis and statistical interpretation. My psychology training gives me a mixed-methods toolbox — from empirical research design and quantitative statistics to qualitative interview coding — that I bring to legal questions most jurists treat as purely doctrinal.
Legal-Tech, AI & Workflow Design
I taught myself to build. Using AI-assisted coding with Claude and ChatGPT, a Swift/Xcode and GitHub workflow, and disciplined prompt and context construction, I turned friction in my own work into a shipped product. I have learned first-hand where AI helps and where it confidently misses a crucial legal nuance — and how to instruct, test and evaluate tools accordingly.
Training & Communication
Five-plus years of small-group university teaching (evaluations of 4.4 and 4.6 / 5), a lecture in the Harvard Medical School series on Neuroscience and Law, and training workshops for judges and lawyers on the right to a fair trial. I have discussed law and (neuro)technology for ~400,000 live radio listeners — and learned to pitch language and concision to whoever is in the room.
Neuroscience & the brain
Where the brain meets the law.
My dissertation asks whether non-invasive brain stimulation could ever be legally and ethically permissible as a sanction in Dutch criminal law. Answering it means integrating neuro-criminology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, legal philosophy and human rights into a single, defensible argument.
It is the kind of question that has no home in one discipline — which is exactly why it fascinates me.
Conceptual possibility and normative desirability — measure versus punishment, autonomy, proportionality.
Lead author, peer-reviewed literature review in Brain Sciences (2022) — evidence synthesis with data and statistics.
LL.B. European Law and BSc Psychology — two ways of seeing every problem.
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