The People

Director

VickyRobertson

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

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Klaudia Majcher

is an Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a Senior Associate Researcher at the Free University of Brussels. 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 CV here and her publication record here.

Pre-Doc Fellows

Franziska Guggi

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.

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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.

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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.

Students

Amelie Zöllinger

Amelie Zöllinger

Administration

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Stephie Habicher

supports the team in all administrative matters.

Visiting Research Fellows

Eva Fischer

Eva Fischer

is 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.

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Helena Drewes

is 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.

Former Visiting Research Fellows

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.