Janneke Gerards (1976) graduated from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, in 1998, with a specialisation in constitutional and administrative law. After graduation, she worked at the Department of Public Law of Maastricht University as a junior researcher and assistant professor. In 2002, she stayed at the University of Michigan (United States) as a visiting researcher. From 2003 until 2011, Janneke Gerards was affiliated to the Public Law Institute of Leiden University, the Netherlands, first as associate professor and as from 2005 as full professor of constitutional and administrative law. From 2011 until 2016, she worked at the Radboud University Nijmegen, first as research professor of fundamental rights law and then as professor of European Law and head of the department of International and European Law. Since April 2016 she is professor of fundamental rights law at Utrecht University. Since 2024, she is State Councillor at the Advisory Division of the Council of State of the Netherlands. She remains active as professor of Fundamental Rights in Europe for one day a week. For more information, please see: 'profile'.