Wannes has a Master of Law from KU Leuven and a Master of Intellectual Property and ICT Law at the KU Leuven Brussels Campus. His theses dealt with Data Protection and the right to freedom of expression and with the empirical study of data subject rights for news recommendation systems. For the past two years Wannes has worked as an in-house legal counsel in the semiconductor industry.

Wannes joins the CiTiP team on March 28th and will be working on the CoMMoDore Project.