As a PhD researcher at the European University Institute (EUI), I research European and digital law under a lens of public law. My research project uses normative, doctrinal, and empirical methods to investigate new forms of Big Tech platform accountability in the EU, with a focus on law and practice around the Digital Services Act (DSA).

At the EUI, I co-coordinated the Digital Public Sphere Working Group, acted as a Senior Editor for the European Journal of Legal Studies, co-taught on 'A Europe Fit for the Digital Age?' and became a peer mentor. I assisted Prof. Deirdre Curtin in EU law research and conference organisation, worked as a note-taker in the EU Conference on the Future of Europe, and as a volunteer editor for the Digital Constitutionalist. With Deirdre Curtin, Tanja Ehnert, and Sarah Tas, I co-edited an open-access volume on the 'European Ombudsman: From Old Battles to New Challenges'. Within the Civica research alliance, I collaborated on the project 'Preserving Public Values in Private Digital Systems' (a cooperation of LSE, Bocconi, Hertie, and EUI).

I've presented my research at several conferences, including at Université libre de Bruxelles on the Brussels Effect in EU Digital Governance, at Universiteit Utrecht's Digital Legal Talks, at Universiteit van Amsterdam on the DSA and Platform Regulation and at the Centre for European Policy Studies on the future of audits in the EU. I published early snapshots of my research on EU digital regulation, platforms and AI, DSA audits, and public values on the DigiCon, MediaLaws, DSA Observatory and SLSA blogs.

I've been kindly hosted by Universiteit van Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law as a visiting researcher (with the DSA Observatory) and by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect) as a Blue Book trainee. Before, I graduated in Law at Universität Wien (2021, with 'Heinrich Klang' award, Erasmus at Università di Bologna) and hold an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Laws from the EUI (2022). I previously worked as an university research and teaching assistant at University of Vienna (in criminal and international law) and for the Austrian federal network of youth information centers (as EU youth wiki correspondent) and gained further practical insights from internships at a law firm, newspaper and public prosecutor's office.

I'm looking forward to get in touch on all things EU, digital, and public law.