Biography
Dr. Sascha van Schendel is assisstant professor Data Protection & Cybersecurity at the department of Law & Markets under the Sectorplan SSH breed The Influence of Digitalization on Work, Prosperity and Entrepreneurship. Sascha holds a PhD from Tilburg University on Risk Profiling conducted by law enforcement agencies, data protection law, non-discrimination law, and criminal procedural law. Her research focuses on data protection law, privacy law, and the regulation of new technologies in general through the lens of fundamental rights and law & technology theories. She has published widely on topics such as procedural law in the data driven society, the use of algorithms and data collection by public actors, the scope of data protection law & personal data, and the culmination of data protection law and the technological and design perspective (e.g. privacy by design, privacy preserving data mining).
She conducted her post-doctoral research within the NWO funded Megamind project on smart energy grids. Sascha studied Law & Technology LLM and Rechtsgeleerdheid Public Law LLM, both at Tilburg University.
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Work
- Sascha van Schendel & Ivo Varenhorst (2025) - A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data - Utilities Policy, 94 - doi: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.101900
- Sascha van Schendel & Wouter Scherpenisse (2024) - AI-toepassingen binnen de strafrechtketen: private actoren in rechtsstatelijk perspectief - Ars Aequi, 73 (12), 1002-1006 - [link]
- Leonie Reins & Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Emerging technologies and environmental, energy and climate law - Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 33 (3), 345-349 - doi: 10.1111/reel.12584
- Sascha van Schendel & Leonie Reins (2024) - Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle-based regulatory theory and strategy - Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 33 (3), 474-484 - doi: 10.1111/reel.12581
- Wouter Scherpenisse & Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Reactie Cbw W. Scherpenisse & S. van Schendel (Erasmus Centre of Law and Digitalization) - [link]
- Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Data Used in Governmental Automated Decision-Making and Profiling: Towards More Practical Protection - doi: 10.2307/jj.12124947
- Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Regulating risk profiling by law enforcement: A task for data protection law, non-discrimination law and criminal procedural law - [link]
- Bart van der Sloot & Sascha van Schendel (2024) - The Boundaries of Data - doi: 10.2307/jj.12124947 - [link]
- Sascha van Schendel & Colette Cuijpers (2023) - Bigdatatoepassingen in de opsporing - [link]
- Bart van der Sloot, Sascha van Schendel & César Augusto Fontanillo López (2022) - The influence of (technical) developments on the concept of personal data in relation to the GDPR - [link]
-  Sascha van Schendel (2025) - AI-Based Criminal Justice Decision-Making: A Patchwork of Regulation? (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel & Ivo Varenhorst (2025) - A Time Aggregation Approach for Reducing Identifiability in Household Energy Data (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
-  Wouter Scherpenisse, Clara Boggini, Julia Krämer, Alberto Quintavalla, Domenico Essoussi, Renée Knoop, Sascha van Schendel & Silvia De Conca (2025) - Security in the digital age (Organiser) 
 Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2025) - Digital platforms as police surveillance intermediaries? (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2025) - Regulatory Challenges in Predictive Policing from the Use of Private Actor Data & Tools (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Aggregating Household Energy Data Under the GDPR: Enabling Data Analysis for the Energy Transition (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2024) - On Regulation of Design & the Design of the Law (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Unmasking the Gaps: A Critical Analysis of the EU Law Enforcement Directive & AI Act in their incompleteness in regulating Data Protection and Discrimination Risks of AI use by Law Enforcement Agencies (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2024) - State of the Art or State of Confusion? Navigating the complex nexus of legal and technical realms in cybersecurity- and data protection legislation (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
-  Sascha van Schendel (2024) - Data Protection & Cybersecurity Law: the role of risk management and design in law (Speaker) 
 Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
VAR Moot Court
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RM50
Government and Business
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RB78
Introduction to Public Law
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RR112
Thesis Master Constitutional and Adminis
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RS113
AI, Democracy & Fundamental Rights
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RT09
Introduction to Public Law
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RD112
Constitutional Law
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RR214
Privacy, Ethics and Social Impacts
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM4604


