Iris Eisenberger

Iris Eisenberger is Professor of Innovation and Public Law at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the Faculty of Law (University of Vienna). Her work focuses on innovation and technology law, the protection of fundamental and human rights and research at the intersection of law, innovation and society.

She studied law at the University of Graz, Austria and the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, and political theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, England before obtaining her venia docendi in the field of constitutional law, administrative law and the related fields of European Union law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, Austria.

She worked for the Austrian Parliament and the European Parliament as well as for the Constitutional Service of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. She held visiting positions at numerous renowned universities including the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), the University of Freiburg (Germany), Harvard University (U.S.), the Mekelle University (Ethiopia), the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (Bhutan), the Macau University (China), the Technical University Munich (Germany) and the Stanford University (U.S.).