Dr. Noah van Dongen is Director of the Legal Data Science Centre and Methodologist at the Amsterdam Law School. As Methodologist, he advises and supports researchers on research design, methodology, grant proposals, and methodological education.

Van Dongen holds doctorates in philosophy of science and cognitive science. His research focuses on scientific methodology and theory development, including how scientific theories can be developed, formalised, evaluated, and connected to empirical evidence. He develops methodological approaches and research infrastructure intended to facilitate more systematic, transparent, and collaborative scientific research.

As Director of the L/DSC, he is responsible for the centre's strategic and day-to-day development and its connection with the UvA’s central Data Science Centre.

Dr. James W. Hazel III (PhD in Molecular Biology; Juris Doctor (JD)) represents Health Law in the Legal Data Science Centre. He is an assistant professor at the Law Centre for Health and Life within the Amsterdam Law School at the University of Amsterdam. Drawing on his training in molecular biology and law, James brings an interdisciplinary and empirical perspective to his research and teaching. His current research focuses on:

1. how different jurisdictions govern genomic and other sensitive health data, including privacy, cross-border sharing, and secondary use under the European Health Data Space (EHDS); and
2. the legal questions raised by AI in health research and care, particularly how its use affects clinical decision-making, the allocation of responsibility, and the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals.

In addition, James leads an NWO project on genomic data sharing under the EHDS and serves as Technical Lead of the ELSA Lab AI for Health Equity.

Dr. Chris Reinders Folmer is an assistant professor in the Center for Law and Behavior at the department of Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam. His research is at the intersection of law and social science, and focuses on topics relating to trust, reconciliation, cooperation, and misunderstanding. Key topics include:

1. Why people obey legal rules (compliance), and the intuitions that laypersons and legal professionals have about this;
2. The remedial effectiveness of legal reparations such as apologies

Chris teaches on behavioral perspectives on the law and on research methods, particularly the module on survey research.

Prof. Agnes Akkerman (PhD in Sociology), University of Groningen, 2000). She is Professor of Regulation of Labour at the Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, where she also heads the Department of Labour Law, Information Law and Law & Economics.

The regulation and organisation of work are at the forefront of Agnes’s research and teaching. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the social and political consequences of workplace regulation, including workplace diversity, employee monitoring and political trust. Her research employs a broad range of qualitative and quantitative methods, including surveys, experiments, longitudinal and comparative data analysis, and interviews.

Dr. Heleen Janssen is researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam, in the Blockchain Society and Policy research group. She is also associate researcher and lecturer at the University of Cambridge (UK), at the Computer Lab.