The team

Claes de Vreese
Professor & ICDS Research Leader

Distinguished University Professor of AI & Society

Natali Helberger
Professor & ICDS Research Leader

Distinguished University Professor Law & Digital Technology, with a special focus on AI

 

Brahim Zarouali
Assistant Professor

Persuasion / algorithmic decision-making / personalization / online platforms / media effects

Paddy Leerssen
PhD Researcher

Information law / social media platforms / accountability / public archives / media pluralism

Tom Dobber
Postdoctoral Researcher

Political microtargeting / data-driven campaigning / algorithms / technology / elections

Joanna Strycharz
Postdoctoral Researcher

Personalised communication / online privacy / algorithmic persuasion / computational methods / ethics

Jef Ausloos
Postdoctoral Researcher

Data protection & data rights / transparency / information freedoms / online privacy / autonomy

Marijn Sax
Postdoctoral Researcher

Ethics / health apps / digital choice architectures / autonomy and manipulation / privacy

Judith Möller
Associate Professor

Public sphere / curated news flows / civic engagement / algorithmic divides / affordances in digital media

Beate Roessler
Professor

philosophy / ethics / political microtargeting / technology / algorithms / autonomy

Fabio Votta
PhD Researcher

personalised communication/ data-driven campaigning / algorithms / technology / elections/ statistics 

Max van Drunen
PhD Researcher

Editorial responsibility / algorithmic transparency / trust / platforms / organisational control

Sanne Vrijenhoek
Project Researcher

Artificial intelligence / news recommender systems / news diversity / natural language processing

Tomas Dodds
Postdoctoral Researcher

Journalism / etnographies / algorithms / automation/ ethics

Theresa Seipp
PhD Researcher

Media pluralism/ opinion power  /  transparency / information freedoms 

Valeria Resendez
PhD Researcher

Opinion / Persuasion / Media effects / Voicebots / Algorithms

Eva Groen-Reijman
Assistant Professor

Deliberative Political Campaigns / Democracy / Autonomy / Persuasion

Guda van Noort
Professor

Persuasion / new media / technologies / algorithmic persuasion / consumer behavior

Hilde Voorveld
Associate Professor

Marketing communication / social media / algorithmic advertising / virtual assistants / voice technology

Theo Araujo
Associate Professor

Algorithmic decision-making / conversational agents / human-machine comm. / computational social science

João Quintais
Postdoctoral Researcher

Information law / content moderation / intermediary liability / algorithms / intellectual property rights

 

 

Former members

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Nadia Metoui
Sarah Eskens
Mariella Bastian
Sophie Boerman
Sanne Kruikemeier
Damian Trilling
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
Kristina Irion
Mykola Makhorykh
Jaron Harambam
Balasz Bodo
Magdalena Wojcieszak
Bob van de Velde
Edith Smit
Jochen Peter
Nico van Eijk
Joost Poort
Julia van Weert