Jeroen van Beek is a IT security consultant at dexlab and a part-time security researcher at the University of Amsterdam. His ePassport research resulted in practical attacks on the new RFID-enabled passport chips and inspection systems. Recently Jeroen supervised security related research projects of Master programme students including subjects like "Security and Reliability of Automated Waste Registration in The Netherlands" and "Security analysis of Dutch smart metering systems" (automated checks of water and energy consumption).

Jessica N. Chen was granted a master degree on Technical Informatics from the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology in 2003. After her PhD research on Discovery Services in Information Rich Environments at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, she started working as an IT researcher at Trans Link Systems B.V in 2007. Her current research within TLS concerns on the strategic exploration on card reader solution aiming at increasing the upgradeability of the Dutch e-ticketing system; security architecture; e-ticketing methodology for multi-modal public transport; micro-payment, etc.

Pieter Hartel started studying Mathematics at the VU University in Amsterdam and received his Masters in 1978. He received a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam in 1989. He had already started as a lecturer at the Computer Systems Department of the University of Amsterdam in 1982. From 1989 until 1991 he was a research assistant in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. After that he started working as a senior lecturer at the Computer Systems Department of the University of Amsterdam.

Bert Jacobs's research concentrates on correctness and security properties of software. Other, related topics of interest are: logic, esp. for security, supported by theorem proving; identity and privacy management; cyber crime; societal aspects of computer security (like electronic voting, see our 2006 expat internet election page, biometric passports, public transport cards or privacy); specification and verification; semantics of programming, esp. for Java; smart cards, esp. Java cards; open source software (like in CodeYard) and also theoretical computer science (esp. coalgebras).

Prof.dr. Ronald Leenes is professor in Regulation by Technology at TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University). His primary research interests are privacy and identity management, regulation of, and by, technology. He is also involved in research in ID fraud, biometrics and Online Dispute Resolution. Ronald was work package leader in the EU FP6 PRIME project for socio-cultural aspects of privacy enhanced identity management.   He is currently responsible for TILT's contribution to the FP7 project PrimeLife and leads the work package on social networks and collaborative workspaces. 

Jan van der Lubbe has been linked as a professor in the rank of senior lecturer to the department Information Theory of the Information Technology and Systems faculty of the Technical University of Delft. He is responsible for the program and research in the field of cryptography and artificial intelligence. He is the author of a large number of scientific publications and books among which ‘Basic Methods of Cryptography’ (Cambridge University Press). He is also a member of the Dutch Normalization Committee concerning Cryptographic Techniques and Applications.

Svetla Nikova is currently Assistant Professor at the research group Distributed and Embedded Security at University of Twente, The Netherlands and a researcher in the research group COSIC in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Svetla Nikova received her M. Sc. degree from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria in 1993 and her Ph. D. degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1998. Since 1999 she has been working as an assistant-professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Veliko Turnovo University, Bulgaria and as a researcher in COSIC, KULeuven, Belgium. My research interests are in Cryptography, in particular Symmetric Cryptography, Multiparty Computation and Lightweight Cryptographic Primitives.

After his studies Management, Economics & Law and his degree in Culture, Organisation & Management he worked as a consultant for a credit management company. He advised in de optimization of de processes and the procedural formation. He also did research to the effects of IT-change courses. In 2008 he started working for Noordbeek as an IT-auditor. He accompanies formation courses for effective systems of controls and effective internal control from riskmanagement perspective. He is capable of making organizations audit proof. He is also the Forum Secretary of the e-Transport forum for the new public transport chipcard.

Jan-Jaap Oerlemans is a PhD-student and lecturer at eLaw@Leiden, Centre for Law in the Information Society (Leiden University). He studied information law and criminal law and wrote his thesis about child pornography on the internet. He deals with privacy law, criminal law and international criminal law. Jan-Jaap lectures on these topics and publishes about these subjects. He is also a legal consultant at the IT security company Fox-IT.

Ronald Paans was born on May 28, 1951 in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, where he attended three years of secondary education (MAVO), followed by training at two vocational colleges (MTS and HTS) preparing a career as a hardware engineer in the field of digital logic. In 1974, he was conscripted into the Dutch army, serving as a communication officer in Field Artillery. Resuming the studies in 1976, he switched his attention from hardware to software and computer architecture, and was granted (cum laude) an MSc degree as an electrical engineer by Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

After his graduation as an MSc in Technical Management Sciences (Technische Bedrijfskunde) at the University of Twente, Martin was employed for more than ten years as a management consultant working primarily in the telecommunications industry. In 2008, he joined the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of Tilburg University, initially working on the FP7 PrimeLife project focusing on the privacy aspects of social networks. In the autumn of 2009, he commenced his Ph.D. research project on privacy-enhanced e-ticketing solutions using location-based services.

Pim Vullers is a Computer Security PhD student performing research in the area of "applet-based e-ticketing". His interest in security started when he finished his Bachelor Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Therefore the Computer Security Master track provided by the Kerckhoffs Institute, a collaboration between the University of Twente, the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen, was a logical choice. After his graduation project at the University of Luxembourg his interest in research led to the decision to continue studying as a PhD student.

Gerrit-Jan Zwenne is working as a professor in the rank of senior lecturer at eLaw@Leiden. He studied law at Leiden university and graduated with a thesis on Taxation and Information Provision Requirements. He deals with telecommunication and privacy law. He regularly gives classes and courses within his areas of expertise and publishes about these subjects. He also works as a lawyer at Bird & Bird in the Hague.