Merijn Bruijnes is an assistant professor at Utrecht University School of Governance in the Netherlands. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who combines experience and knowledge from psychology, computer science and governance to study current societal technical challenges and pragmatically design solutions. Merijn is active in efforts towards good scientific practices such as leading the Open Science Foundation workgroup towards creating an Artificial Social Agent Evaluation Instrument. His interdisciplinary work has a wide audience with contributions to various international conferences from different scientific fields and publications in top-ranked journals such as Nature Scientific Report. His current research focuses on the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence by governmental organisations such as the police.