Expertise
Legal thinking, scientific thinking, and technological thinking.
Educated in both law and psychology: I can understand technology (both conceptually and empirically), I can place it within legal systems, and I can develop frameworks to assess and implement it. These are my domains of expertise.
Legal & Regulatory Analysis
I am educated and trained as a jurist, but I am drawn much more to innovation and new questions rather than simply applying the law. I can assess new technology against the legal frameworks that govern it, and translate that assessment into advice of conceptual, technological, and legal nature. My work has covered the European Convention on Human Rights, Dutch Civil Law, Dutch Criminal Law, Dutch Criminal Procedure, and the Court of Justice of the European Union and EU Regulations. A lot of the time, the issues fascinate me more than the field(s) of law, and so I am always open to expanding my horizon.
Scientific & Analytical Method
I was lead author of a peer-reviewed neuroscientific article, including the data analysis and statistical interpretation, and I supported two PhD researchers performing their empirical research by coding and guiding participants through experiments. My psychology training allows me to examine a problem and identify ways to tackle it, while specifically keeping the human user in mind.
Legal-Tech, AI & Workflow Design
I taught myself to build. Daily, I learn about and use AI-assisted coding via Claude Code, Codex, Xcode and GitHub. I am not pretending I am a software engineer or that I know how enterprise-grade software is built, but I am growing to understand how to turn ideas into real tools and workflows that can automate or perform mechanistic tasks that genuinely save a lot of time: See PoCo.
Training & Communication
Fully independent course-coordination and five years of small-group university teaching (average evaluation of 4.6 / 5), a lecture in the Harvard Medical School series on Neuroscience and Law, preparing trainings for judges and lawyers on the right to a fair trial. I have presented law and (neuro)technology for ~400,000 live radio listeners — I know very well how to inform different audiences.