Postdoc Vidi project: With greater power must come great responsibility

Universiteit Utrecht

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Full time
Posted June 14, 2026

Job Description

Websites rely on powerful third-party tools. Do you want to explore GDPR compliance and power through law, HCI and empirical research? Join our team!

Join us as a Postdoc in the NWO Vidi project With greater power must come great responsibility. The project aims to identify who truly exercises power in today’s web ecosystem and how responsibility under data protection law should be attributed accordingly. You will lead the empirical and HCI components of the project by conducting interviews and other user studies, analysing third-party tools and web platforms, and investigating how website owners navigate complex technological dependencies. Help shape future data protection regulation through interdisciplinary research.

Your job

The School of Law of Utrecht University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years) within the NWO Vidi project “With greater power must come great responsibility: attributing dat...