Wouter Van Rossem

Wouter Van Rossem is a PhD researcher at The University of Twente (The Netherlands) and currently a visiting researcher at the University of Bologna (Italy) as part of European Research Council funded “Processing Citizenship”. He researches how people’s identity data are matched and linked in transnational security infrastructures. First, drawing from his background in computer science, he developed a method and tool to analyse data models underpinning data infrastructures for population management. Second, he conducted a fieldwork that probed into the complex histories and transnational aspects of developing software technologies for matching identity data.