Director
Vicky Robertson
is the Director of The Competition Law Hub. She is a Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she heads the Competition Law and Digitalization Group. Her research interests include digital competition law, green competition law, issues of competition law enforcement, and comparative competition law. Find her CV here and her publication record here.
Post-Doc Fellows
Klaudia Majcher
is a Post-Doc Fellow with The Competition Law Hub. Klaudia is a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. She is also affiliated as a Senior Associate Researcher with the Free University of Brussels-VUB. Her research focuses on digital competition law, green competition law, as well as interactions between competition law and other legal areas, including data protection. Find her publication record here.
Pre-Doc Fellows
Franziska Guggi
is a PhD researcher and a Teaching and Research Associate at the Comeptition Law and Digitalization Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Due to her involvement in the DataComp project, her research interests especially include digital competition law and data-driven competition law enforcement.
Fabian Ziermann
is a PhD researcher at the Competition Law and Digitalization Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a Pre-Doc Fellow at The Competition Law Hub. His doctoral research focuses on the regulation of eSports, gaming and the metaverse through comparative competition and IP law. Fabian holds LL.M. degrees from the LSE, the Brussels School of Competition and the LMU Munich.
Petar Petrov
is a PhD researcher and a Teaching and Research Associate at the Comeptition Law and Digitalization Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Among other topics, his research focus lies in competition in digital markets, platforms regulations, and IP rights and antitrust. Find more information on Petar here and his publication record here.
David Führer
is a PhD researcher and a Teaching and Research Associate at the Competition Law and Digitalization Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research interests, particularly in digital competition law, align with his focus on competition in digital markets, platform regulation, and antitrust.
Students
Teresa Greinecker
Administration
Stephie Habicher
supports the team in all administrative matters.
Visiting Research Fellows
Wendy Ng
is a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from September to December 2024, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Wendy is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, where she is the Director of the Competition Law and Economics Network at Melbourne Law School. Her research focuses on political economy, comparative, and interdisciplinary competition law issues.
Stella Galehr
is a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub in November and December 2024, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is a PhD researcher at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Her research focuses on digital competition, platform regulation and data protection law.
Former Visiting Research Fellows
Blerina Nazeraj
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from May to September 2022, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is a PhD student at the University of Siena (Italy). During her research visit, she focuses on the problems arising from the application of competition law to the business strategies carried out by big platforms operating in the digital age.
Johannes Persch
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub in October 2022, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is a PhD student at the University of Mannheim (Germany). In his PhD, he researches on online sales restrictions and whether protecting consumers' autonomous decision-making can be another avenue to justify the EU rules on vertical agreements beyond mere economic considerations.
Lena Hornkohl
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub in May and June 2022, based at the University of Graz, where she is also a Senior Fellow. She is a postdoctoral researcher from the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. Among other topics, her research focuses on competition law doctrine, private enforcement of competition law, comparative and international competition law.
Viktorija Morozovaite
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from March to June 2022, based at the University of Graz, where she is also a Wirtschaftskammer Steiermark Fellow. She is PhD researcher at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). In her research project ‘Hypernudging strategies in the digital market economy: a role for European competition law?’ she works on conceptualizing novel hypernudging processes and examines them in relation to Article 102 TFEU.
Belle Beems
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from March to June 2023, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Belle works as a PhD candidate at the Radboud University in The Netherlands. Her research focusses on competition law, data protection law and the Digital Markets Act. She is particularly interested in the interaction between these legal branches and the (overlapping) competences of different regulators and enforcement authorities.
Thomas Cheng
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from March to June 2023, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
He is a professor of competition law at the University of Hong Kong. He is particularly interested in competition law in developing countries and comparative competition law. He published two books on competition law in developing countries with Oxford University Press in 2020 and 2021.
Eva Fischer
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from October 2023 until March 2024, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at LMU Munich (Germany) where she works in competition law and related fields, such as intellectual property and torts. Her research focuses mainly on the doctrine and the enforcement of competition law using methods of comparative law and the economic analysis of law.
Helena Drewes
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from February to April 2024, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is currently a PhD candidate and research associate at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany). Her research focuses on general principles such as legal certainty and legitimate expectation in competition law, the intersection of competition law, IP law and regulation and in particular digital regulation.
Yibo Li
was a visiting researcher with The Competition Law Hub from April 2024 until May 2024, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. They are a PhD researcher at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) where they work in competition law, sustainability and human rights. Their current research focuses on the regulation of economic and political power of digital platforms.
Juan Ignacio Ruiz Peris
was a visiting fellow with The Competition Law Hub from July to September 2024, based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is a Full Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Valencia, where he leads a research group on digital competition law. His research interests include the Digital Markets Act, digital networks, private enforcement, new competition tools and the interaction between competition authorities.