Dr. Can Atik

Tilburg University

Dr. Can Atik graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 2012. He completed a master’s degree in international trade law at Durham University Law School in the United Kingdom and earned his PhD in competition law and European Union technology regulation at Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands in 2023. His doctoral dissertation examined data access issues in the emerging digital agriculture sector within the framework of European Union competition law and regulatory interventions.

Between 2023 and 2025, he conducted postdoctoral research at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. He also carried out academic research as a visiting researcher with the economics research team at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Seville. In 2018, he received the Best Paper Award at the 29th European Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS), held in Italy.

His academic work focuses on competition law, data governance, digital agriculture, artificial intelligence and European Union technology regulation. He has published articles in international academic journals and a book chapter in these fields. He has taught European Union competition law, as well as competition, innovation and digital markets, at Tilburg University, and innovation and regulation at Eindhoven University of Technology.