I am Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, focused on understanding the impact of content monetization on social media and on reinterpreting private law fairness in the context of platform governance. Between 2016-2021 I was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, and during February 2018 - February 2019, I was a Niels Stensen fellow and visited the University of St. Gallen (The Institute of Work and Employment) and Harvard University (The Berkman Center for Internet and Society). I'm also a non-residential fellow of the Stanford Transatlantic Technology Law Forum. My research follows three main themes: Content/web monetization and social media governance - the Internet is helping regular users make money in ways that did not exist 10 years ago, such as influencer marketing or ad revenue. In this context, I use doctrinal legal methods to critically reflect on existing and desirable regulatory frameworks surrounding online harms (e.g. content moderation; platform discretion; misleading advertising). To bring together complementing disciplines contributing to this field, I also established and coordinate, with Jerry Spanakis, the Computational Social Media research group. Privacy, cryptography and decentralization - it is expected that the new age of the Internet will be rooted in technologies meant to enhace privacy, or decentralize decision-making. In this context I use legal and social science approaches to the study of cryptocommunities (e.g. dark web market places). Digital monitoring tools for consumer protection - the enforcement of law through public interest technology is one of the most essential legal topics of the coming decade. By collaborating with experts in Natural Language Processing and Privacy and Security, I am contributing to the development of tools which can be used by public institutions (e.g. detecting influencer marketing business models on Instagram). I have the priviledge of supervising four very talented researchers in their PhD research: Thales Bertaglia (computer scientist working on computational social media studies), Maastricht University Constanta Rosca (legal scholar working on dark patterns and EU consumer law), Maastricht University Alex Sotropa (legal scholar working on computational antitrust and consumer protection), VU Amsterdam Jacob van de Kerkhof (legal scholar working on freedom of expression in US/EU), Utrecht University
Dr Rebecca Wynne-Walsh completed her PhD entitled Basque Gothic Cinema (1990-2020): A Regionalist Challenge to the Spanish Model of National Cinema Production and Cultural Identity with Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has now begun her role as lecturer in Film Studies and Production at Edge Hill University. She received her M. Phil in International History from Trinity College Dublin where she previously received her BA in Film Studies and English Literature. Her research interests include, film studies, cinema history, horror cinema, Gothic studies, cultural studies, Hispanic studies, regionalism, transnationalism, postcolonialism, trauma studies and folklore studies.
Henrietta is a PhD student within the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. She completed her BSc in Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2018 and her MSc in Health Psychology at King’s College London in 2019. Prior to starting her PhD, Henrietta worked as a research assistant in Queen’s University Belfast on a project related to stem cell donation. Within Loughborough University, Henrietta researches weight management, in particular whether a small change approach may be an effective strategy for helping the public to manage their weight.
Ming Du is professor and director of the Centre for Chinese Law and Policy at Durham Law School. His current research focuses on the theoretical and structural issues of global economic governance (trade, investment and finance), China's approach to international law, and the development of the rule of law in contemporary China. He also retains a strong interest in corporate law and cross-border business transactions in which he practiced as a qualified lawyer in both New York and Beijing for a number of years.
Le Dr Olivia Gosseries est codirectrice du Coma Science Group. En tant que neuropsychologue, ses premiers travaux ont porté sur le diagnostic et le pronostic chez les patients souffrant de troubles de la conscience qui sortent du coma en utilisant la stimulation cérébrale non invasive et l'électrophysiologie. Ces dernières années, elle a travaillé de manière plus approfondie sur les options thérapeutiques pour cette population de patients difficiles. Afin d'étudier la conscience humaine de manière plus globale, elle s'intéresse désormais aussi à l'anesthésie, à la mémoire du coma, au rêve lucide, à la méditation, à l'hypnose, à la transe cognitive et à la réalité virtuelle. Elle est rédactrice en chef adjointe des revues Clinical Neurophysiology et Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Elle a coédité la deuxième édition du livre `Neurology of Consciousness' (Elsevier, 2015), a révisé des articles pour de nombreuses revues scientifiques, supervise des doctorants et a organisé plusieurs conférences (Coma Day, Human Brain Project conference on consciousness). Elle compte plus de 160 publications dans des revues internationales à comité de lecture telles que Science, Lancet, Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology et Brain, et de nombreux exposés invités lors de conférences internationales. Son objectif est de continuer à améliorer les soins aux patients qui sortent du coma, de contribuer à la compréhension de la conscience humaine et de promouvoir l'éducation et la sensibilisation du public à ce sujet clinique et de recherche fascinant.
Charlène Aubinet is a postdoctoral researcher in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit and in the Coma Science Group – GIGA-Consciousness at ULiège. She was graduated in 2020, with a PhD on residual language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness. Her postdoctoral research mainly aims to dissociate language and consciousness impairment and recovery in these post-comatose patients with severe brain injury. Her interests include the validation of behavioral and language-specific assessment tools, neuroimaging research and language rehabilitation in this challenging population, as well as consciousness and implicit/explicit language processes.
