Floris Mertens

Biography

Floris Mertens (1998) works as a PhD researcher at the Financial Law Institute of Ghent University. In 2021, he received a scholarship from the Special Research Fund of Ghent University (BOF) to prepare a PhD dissertation regarding a legal analysis of the use of artificial intelligence in support of decision-making at board level of companies. One year later, he was granted an additional fellowship from the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) in support of his on-going project. Prof. dr. Hans De Wulf supervises his PhD research.

Floris has conducted research stays at Oxford University (April 2023 – June 2023), Columbia University (September 2023 – August 2024), and the Max Planck Institute for Comparitive and International Private Law in Hamburg (April 2025 – May 2025). For these stays abroad, Floris has been awarded scholarships from Fulbright, the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), and the Max Planck Institute, in addition to financial support from the Fernand Lazard Foundation.

Floris holds a degree of Master of Laws, obtained summa cum laude at Ghent University in 2021. During his time in law school, he interned at a Belgian law firm and the policy unit of the Federal State Secretary for Budget and Consumer Protection.