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Maarten Hillebrandt is assistant professor in public management. He specializes in EU institutional law and governance, and has widely published on government transparency policy in and beyond the EU. In recent research, Maarten focuses on related public information questions related to the quantification of performance in the public sector, as well as the challenges and governance dilemmas posed by the phenomenon of disinformation.

Maarten has previously held positions at the Erik Castr茅n Institute for International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki University; the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University; and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), University of Amsterdam. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow at the Research Centre for the Analysis of Governance and Public Policy in Europe (LAGAPE), University of Lausanne, the Centre for European Research (CERGU), Gothenburg University, and the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Maarten participated in various multiple-year international research projects, namely (2010-2017), (2017-2019) (2017-2021), en (2021-2022). Currently, Maarten is involved in Utrecht University's inter-faculty cooperation within the cross-cutting sector plan Welfare, participation and citizenship in a digital world. Along with Robert Weijers (FSS, Department Psychology), he currently conducts a study into the local engagement with the challenges of disinformation, financed by the . 

In 2017, Maarten defended a dissertation on the historical development of the access to documents policy of the Council of the EU at the University of Amsterdam. This dissertation was awarded the annual Van Poelje Prize for the best dissertation in the field of public administration in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Maarten's research interests include the policy and politics of government (dis)information, transparency theory, EU institutional decision making, socio-legal and qualitative research, and institutional informality.