CRISP is delighted to welcome Dr Tjerk Timan to St Andrews for a one month visiting scholarship. Tjerk will be working on participatory methods for use in privacy research during his stay.  He is a PostDoc researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology & Society (TILT), where he is researching new privacy issues in the 21st century. He is also a WP leader for the h2020 project MicroMole. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he was providing courses on digital humanities, big data and visualization methods. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in which he investigated emerging and existing technologies of surveillance in urban nightlife districts. His research interest cover STS, surveillance, privacy, regulation of technology and user studies.

His profile and publications can be seen here and his project website here