Affiliate researchers

Laura Aade

Phd researcher

University of Luxembourg

Laura Aade is a PhD Candidate in consumer law and platform governance at the University of Luxembourg. Her interdisciplinary research combines law and social sciences to explore the rise of e-commerce on social media platforms and the role of consumer protection role in this context. Currently, she is conducting visiting research stays at the University of Minnesota Law School and Northeastern University School of Law to explore EU-US parallels on this specific topic.

Margje Camps

Phd researcher

Utrecht University

Margje obtained her LLM from the Legal Research Master cum laude from Utrecht University and worked as a junior lecturer for the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University before starting her PhD. Her current research addresses the legal framework applicable to consumer misinformation on social media and what enforcement strategies are available to reduce consumer vulnerability. She is also interested in legal developments in the field of influencer marketing and has already conducted research into child and family influencers.

Anaya Jethani

Non-residential visiting researcher

June-August 2023

Anaya is a rising senior at Leonia High School in New Jersey and is enrolled in the Marketing and Business Leadership Academy program at her school. She is an active user of social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok and creates content for organizations and businesses. She is very excited to intern for the Human Ads Research Project this summer!

Małgorzata Krzemińska

Residential visiting researcher

September 2023

Małgorzata is a 5th-year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz and studied at the University of Münster for a semester. She received a Student Research Grant (University of Lodz) to pursue research on unfair commercial practices and influencers, and delivered a connected presentation at the third National Conference on New Technologies Law in Lodz.

Nadia Feci

PhD researcher, KU Leuven

March-April 2024

In 2021, Nadia started a joint PhD at both KU Leuven (CiTiP) and Ghent University (Law & Technology) within the framework of the GAM(e)(a)BLE project, which is an interdisciplinary project entailing research on the blurring lines between gambling and gaming. Her PhD topic complements this project by looking at how to regulate branded content creators (i.e. user-generated audiovisual content creators, including ‘game streamers’) in order to effectively protect media consumers – minors in particular – against harmful content on video-sharing platforms.

_Nikos Aletras, Professor, Sheffield University

_José van Dijck, Professor, Utrecht University

_Lilian Edwards, Professor, Newcastle University

_Christian Fieseler, Professor, Norwegian Business School

_Natali Helberger, Professor, University of Amsterdam

_Mathias Siems, Professor, European University Institute

Advisory board