Lauren Olson

PhD Student

Hello, my name is Dr. Lauren Olson and I'm a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Cristiana Santos, Almila Akdag, and Nataliia Bielova. I work at the Utrecht University School of European and International Law and in the UU's Human-Centered Computing Group. My current research focuses on identifying and categorizing power within web ecosystems to help update current EU law.
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at VU Amsterdam under the supervision of Emitzá Guzmán, Florian Kunneman, Patricia Lago and Koen Hindriks. I formerly worked in the Software and Sustainability, Social AI, AI & Behavior and Software Revolution research groups. My research interests generally lie in developing tools and processes to make the software engineering process more ethical and user-centered.