Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi is Professor of Law and Governance at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, since 2010. Previously, she was a senior researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Bremen in Germany, and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. She authored and (co-)edited several publications in European and comparative law, including books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Since 2014 she is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance (EJCL), which is a Web of Science journal published by Brill. Since November 2019 she is the academic director of the Groningen Law Faculty’s centre of expertise “Rethinking Public Interests in Private Relationships” (REPP), funded by the Law Sector Plan of the Dutch Government.