Professor Paul De Hert is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He directs the Research Group on Human Rights (FRC) and is former Director of the Research group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), and of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law.

He is also associated professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT).  He is board member of several journals such as The Computer Law & Security Review (Elsevier) and Criminal Law & Philosophy (Springer). Paul De Hert founded the annual CPDP conferences first organized in 2007.