Simone van der Hof is a full professor of Law Digital Technologies at the Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) at Leiden Law School. She was the initiator and, until September 2023, programme director of the Master of Laws Advanced Studies programme in Law and Digital Technologies. She is a coordinator and lecturer for several master's-level courses on children’s rights and digital technologies. Her particular academic interest is in the field of child rights and digital technologies (children’s rights to privacy and data protection, protection against online sexual and commercial exploitation of children and the children’s right to play in the digital environment). Over the years, she has participated in numerous national and European research projects, including more recently the euConsent project on the development of electronic identification and trust services for children in Europe in which she researched parental consent and age verification mechanism in the context of data protection law and a project on age assurance as part of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK+) strategy. She has developed the Dutch Code voor Kinderrechten (Children’s rights code) with the Waag Society and a model Children’s Rights Impact Assessment with Considerati. She was involved in research into behavioural design in video games and in classifying such design with the Dutch Trimbos Institute and the Technical University of Eindhoven. Simone holds various ancillary positions related to children’s rights and the protection of minors.