Wen-Ting Yang (W.T.)

Wen-Ting Yang is a PhD researcher from Taiwan, currently based at Maastricht University (Faculty of Law). She is also a member of the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab and of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (MEPLI). She obtained her current PhD position through the 2022 internal round and is 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 feasibility and opportunities of using ‘nudge interventions’ on online investment apps, to protect users by gently pushing them to make better decisions while still ensuring their freedom of choice.

In addition to her research, she teaches bachelor students in the European Law School and supervises bachelor theses. She speaks Taiwanese, English, Mandarin, and a bit of Dutch (A1 to A2 level).

Before joining the faculty, she earned degrees in multiple fields, including Special Education (BEd), Engineering (MEng), Law (LLM), and Law & Digital Technologies (Advanced LLM). From 2017 to September 2022, she worked at the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica, a leading research institute in the sciences and humanities in Taiwan. During that time, her research primarily focused on personal data protection.