Michiel Luchtman is professor of Economic and European criminal law. He chairs the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology and is programme leader of the master European criminal justice in a global context.

His research and teaching focus on the consequences of Europeanisation for criminal justice and law enforcement in general; on criminal law and fundamental rights; on economic criminal law, as well as criminal tax law.Luchtman also (co-)supervises several PhD projects on these issues.

Luchtman is the Dutch contact point of ECLAN, the EU criminal law academic network. From September 2019 to September 2022, he was Director of Postgraduate Studies and a member of the board of the Department of Law; from 2023 to September 2025, he was one of the programme directors of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE)