M-EPLI is happy to welcome two new PhD candidates: Wen-Ting Yang and Mingya Jiang.
M-EPLI is happy to welcome two new PhD candidates: Wen-Ting Yang and Mingya Jiang.
Wen-Ting studied Special Education (BEd) and Engineering (MEng) at National Taiwan Normal University, as well as Law (LLM) at National Chengchi University and Law & Digital Technologies (Advanced LLM) at Leiden University. She also has five years of professional work experience as a research assistant at the Institute of Information Science, at Academia Sinica, a leading sciences and humanities research institute in Taiwan.
She obtained a PhD position through the 2022 internal round and will be carrying out her PhD project ‘Data-driven Nudges in Investment Apps ― An Opportunity to Develop a Healthy and Sustainable Financial Environment Amidst the Retail Investment Boom’. This project focuses on the legal permissibility and limitations of the use of ‘nudge techniques’ to facilitate retail investor protection.
Mingya Jiang has gained a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics and a Master’s Degree in International Law from East China University of Political Science and Law. Right now, she obtained a four year PhD scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council to carry out research. Her research interests lie broadly in the area of Law and Economics, European Competition Law and Data Protection Law. Her recent research project focuses on a law and economic perspective to analysis the relationship between online advertising and exploitative abuse in the data economy.
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