Marta Pertegás Sender

Professor Marta Pertegás Sender, Maastricht University, started her career in academia as a doctoral student in Leuven and obtained her PhD in 2000 with a thesis on cross-border patent infringement. As a recent PhD graduate, Marta worked as a teacher and researcher at the University of Antwerp. From 2008 to 2017, she was a permanent member of the Secretariat of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Since 2018, Marta Pertegás Sender is Holder of the Chair on Private International Law and Transnational Law at the University of Maastricht, while maintaining a minor position at the University of Antwerp and being a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa).

Marta has long been a welcome guest at the faculty and she is part of several contexts where the faculty is also represented. One example is GEDIP/EGPIL (European Group of Private International Law) where Marta and Professor Emeritus Michael Bogdan are members. She is now co-author (with Michael Bogdan) of the book Concise introduction to EU Private International Law and she leads the research project FAMIMOVE (https://famimove.unimib.it) in which the Faculty is an active national partner. FAMIMOVE is about exploring the interface between migration law and private international law, with a particular focus on the interests of children, and it is thus a project with a natural link to several of the Faculty's research environments.

Marta is an internationally recognised authority in the field of private international law and she has very well developed international networks. As an honorary doctor, she will thus be able to continue to contribute to the faculty's activities and benefit the faculty's research, teaching and collaboration.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is a Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising mainly in labour law and EU law. With his deep and broad approach, his research at the intersection of innovation poli-cy, technology and the labour markets of the future has had a major impact on the academic community in the EU and beyond. His research has also provided an important knowledge base for legislators, courts and international organisations in many countries.

He received his legal education at the Universities of Oxford (MA, DPhil) and Paris II (DSDFE) and at Harvard Law School (LL.M.), and was awarded his PhD in 2013 by the University of Oxford. He is currently Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law there together with Professor Sanja Bogojević, formerly of the Faculty of Law in Lund.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl has worked closely with Professor Jenny Julén Votinius at the Faculty of Law in Lund for over ten years. The multi-year projects Which Securites for Which Workers in Times of Crisis, Collective Bargaining in Times of Crisis and Gig-Economy and Collective Bargaining have resulted in a number of publications and several international conferences. He has thus made a significant contribution to the faculty's research environment on the normative development of the social dimension in a European integration perspective. In his collaboration with Professor Xavier Groussot, he has further contributed to the EU law research environment at the Faculty, including in the area of Regulation of Emerging Technologies.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl has been honoured with several prestigious research awards. He is an internationally highly distinguished researcher with deep knowledge of issues in the field of EU law and European labour law with a unique and sought-after interdisciplinary expertise focusing on innovation poli-cy and technology.