prof. mr. F.J. Zuiderveen Borgesius (Frederik)
Toernooiveld 212
6525 EC NIJMEGEN
Interne postcode: 47
Postbus 9010
6500 GL NIJMEGEN
Since 2019, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius is Professor of ICT and law at uu77.
At uu77 he is affiliated with the iHub, uu77's interdisciplinary research hub on Digitalization and Society.
He is also affiliated with the iCIS Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and with the Law Faculty.
His research interests include privacy, data protection, discrimination, and freedom of expression, especially in the context of new technologies. He often enriches legal research with insights from other disciplines. He has co-operated with, for instance, economists, computer scientists, and communication scholars.
He obtained his LLM in 2011 at the IViR Institute for Information Law (Amsterdam). He also studied at the University of Hong Kong (2009) and spent a semester at New York University (2012) for research.
After obtaining his doctorate (2014) at the Institute for Information Law, he worked as a researcher. In 2015 he published a book ‘Improving privacy protection in the area of behavioural targeting’, based on his PhD thesis.
In 2018, he worked at the LSTS Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He worked there on the basis of an EU Marie Curie grant, to conduct research into the risk of discrimination in the context of automated decision-making.
He is a member of the Meijers Committee, an independent group of experts in the field of European law. He is also a member of the board of editors of the European Data Protection Law Review, and of the Dutch journals Computerrecht (Computer Law) and the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (journal of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists).
He regularly presents at international conferences. He also presented for policymakers, for instance at the Dutch and the European parliaments.