Jan De Bruyne is professor IT law at the KU Leuven and Head of the Centre for IT & IP Law. He teaches several courses on law and technology, and is the Principal Investigator (PI) of many projects dealing with the legal and ethical aspects of technology. He successfully defended his Ph.D. in September 2018 on a topic dealing with the liability of third-party certifiers. During his research, he became interested in liability for damage caused by AI-systems. Jan De Bruyne was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent University Faculty of Law and Criminology working on robots and tort law from October 2018 to October 2020. He started working at CiTiP in October 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher on legal aspects of AI and as a senior researcher within the Flemish Knowledge Centre for Data & Society (KDS). As from November 2020, he worked at CITIP as a research expert on (tort) law and AI.