Liisa Janssens LLM MA has 10+ years’ experience in the (research) field of law and new technologies.

From 2016-2024 (8 years) she worked as a scientist at TNO (The Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research, founded by law in 1932 to enable business and government to apply knowledge) at TNO she was the lead scientist of an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the department Military Operations, at the unit Defence, Safety & Security where she combined theoretical and applied scientific research on the nexus of law, philosophy and AI technology (applied mathematics).

In the past 8 years of research Liisa Janssens LLM MA became an international thought leader and created an interdisciplinary scenario-based approach. She contributes on regular basis as an international Subject Matter Expert (SME) to several expert groups of the European Defence Agency (EDA) and NATO.

In international engineering teams, she is experienced in taking the lead in formulating new questions on how to responsibly navigate AI development processes. In operational projects, for example, her role is to lead scientific teams -via the scenario-based approach- in finding new (technical) requirements and to build (operational) strategies, (AI) taxonomies and (technical) databases, all informed by laws, policies, ethics and the Rule of Law.

The scenario-based approach she created is also the foundation of her research at Technical University Delft where she is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty Technology, Policy and Management.