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My expertise lies in EU competition law and the regulation of digital markets. My research focuses in particular on how competition law and regulation should govern digital business ecosystems, the implementation and enforcement of competition regimes (the Digital Markets Act, Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act, and Section 19a GWB), and the enforcement of EU competition rules in digital. I work as assistant professor in EU competition law at Leiden University, and have a part-time position as a researcher in the SCiDA project. I am currently working a book where we develop best practices for digital regulation by comparing the DMA, DMCCA, and Sec. 19a GWB. You can read blogs by me and my colleagues on www.scidaproject.com. I am available for consultancy and advice on the Digital Markets Act as to help business users identify and use the rights that they are granted under the DMA, for instance in terms of access to data, facilities, or if they are subjected to prohibited restrictions by gatekeepers.
I'm currently working in the project Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) led by Rupprecht Podszun and Oles Andriychuk. In this project, we study and compare digital market legislation in the EU, UK and Germany. We aim to develop a database for all things relevant to the DMA, DMCCA and section 19a GWB and conduct research on the implementation and enforcement of these laws, to build a SCiDA platform for knowledge exchange and to engage with regulators, business users and gatekeepers to understand how they perceive the changes and impact of these laws.
The purpose of this visit is to further our research on the US case against Google and to identify lessons for remedy design. The visit includes the developing two papers on cross-jurisdictional lessons for remedy design, participation in the Yale-KGI conference "Beyond the DMA", and meeting with US antitrust scholars to identify new research questions for the SCiDA project.
Between February 2023 and March 2024 I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT), a part of the Academic Collaborative Center Climate & Energy and a Member of the Tilburg Center for Law & Economics (TILEC) . My research focuses on how to accelerate the green energy transition by identifying and tackling legal obstacles particularly for emerging markets for electricity storage and transformation into alternative energy carriers and smart energy hubs to facilitate the growth of renewable energy sources and their integration into the energy grid.
During my time as a PhD researcher at Tilburg University I have been involved in research, teaching and thesis supervision. I have worked (and am working) at Tilburg University’s Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT), and I am still an active member of the Tilburg Law & Economics Center (TILEC). I have written my PhD thesis "Regulating Competition in the Digital Network Industry - A Proposal for Progressive Ecosystem Regulation", to contribute to the areas of competition law, regulation theory and the study of competition in digital markets. I have also written and published works on European and Dutch Competition law, including Merger Control, the Digital Markets Act, cybersecurity, and the rights of platform workers. I have taught in the following courses and areas: - European Law - Methods and Techniques for Lawyers - Law, Technology and Society - International Competition Law In terms of supervision, I have gained extensive experience in supervising Master theses, I have also supervised students at the Bachelor level within the Global Law programme. I have supervised theses in competition law, intellectual property, crypto regulation, the intersection between competition and privacy, and regulating data-driven innovations.