Dr. Enrique Santamaría is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Law & Markets of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a project coordinator within the framework of the Dutch Sector Plan for Law. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Groningen in 2020 with a thesis on the limits to the validity of contracts on human tissue under EU law.  

His research focuses on the relations between the human body and the law. His more recent academic interests explore the governance of digital and other converging technologies in healthcare. In particular, Dr. Santamaría studies different theories on health data commons, and the legal, political and ethical debates around AI applications in health.