Sophia Witz, LL.M.

University Assistant

Schottenbastei 10-16, 2^nd floor
1010 Vienna
E: sophia.witz@univie.ac.at
P: +43-1-4277-34246

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Sophia Witz has been a university assistant at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law since June 2022. She already was a university assistant at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University of Vienna in Prof. Pöschl’s team from August 2021 to March 2022. Prior to that, she first worked as a research assistant and then as a university assistant in Prof. Eberhard's team at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In addition, Sophia Witz contributed to the design of the seminar "Parliaments and Constitutional Law – Parliaments and Constitutional Courts" at the Department of Parliamentary Studies for the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation and participated in several national and international research projects.

She studied business law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include constitutional law, fundamental and human rights law, technology law, in particular the regulation of AI and robotics, as well as comparative law.

Sophia Witz is Co-Chair of the Young Section of the Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights working group of the Austrian Research Association.