Evelien Brouwer is assistant professor/senior researcher constitutional and administrative law at the Utrecht University since October 2021 and as researcher she is affiliated to the Montaigne Centre for the Rule of Law and Administration of Justice. Her areas of expertise include EU asylum, migration and data protection law. In her publications she addresses amongst others the use of border technologies from the perspective of human rights, in particular the right to effective remedies, non-discrimination, and privacy. She participated in different (EU and national) research projects dealing with EU asylum and migration policies, the Schengen acquis, and the use of large-scale databases and biometrics. In 2019, Brouwer received a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence. Between 2012-2021, she worked at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In het PhD thesis 'Digital Borders and Real Rights' (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2007) she investigated the right to effecitive judicial protection for third-country nationals reported in the Schengen Infomation Syste, in three countries (France, Germany, and the Netherlands). Brouwer is currently member of the Dutch NGO, the Meijers Committee and 'plaatsvervangend rechter' at the district court Midden-Nederland.