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Marc Schuilenburg

Marc Schuilenburg is Professor of Digital Surveillance at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The focus of his research is on the increase in size and complexity of surveillance practices, which increasingly rely on AI and algorithms to support decision-making.

Majsa Storbeck

Majsa Storbeck researches the effects of AI on wide-ranging surveillance experiences and practices, and their overarching implications for human rights and society.

Jair Schalkwijk

Jair Schalkwijk researches the current societal challenges in the prevention and combatting of racial profiling by the Dutch police. In his PhD-research Schalkwijk will focus on the social construction or racial profiling, the challenges civilians encounter when filing complaints, the use of dirty data in predictive policing, and on how to measure the extent of racial profiling.

Merel Driessen

Merel Driessen is a PhD researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam focused on resistance and surveillance. Her current research dives into the way in which opposing protest movements are policed and the (unintended) consequences of police control on the relationship between activists and the state.

Jing Hiah

Dr. Jing Hiah is assistant professor in criminology at the Department of Law, Society and Crime at Erasmus School of Law. Her research is guided by two main questions: How do people secure their livelihoods under uncertain and vulnerable social and legal circumstances? What role do law, policy and technology play in (re)producing and/or challenging these circumstances? In her current project she focusses on new forms of surveillance, worker control and work-based harms in the platform economy.

Martijn Wessels

Martijn Wessels is a researcher on the topic of responsible digitalisation and algorithmisation in the safety and security domain. He is researcher at independent applied research institute TNO, and PhD-candidate at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Amr Marzouk

Amr Marzouk is a PhD researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the methods employed by illiberal and authoritarian regimes to exert control over the digital space, with a particular emphasis on the global south.