Iris Eisenberger is a Professor for Innovation and Public Law at the Institute for Innovation and Digitalisation in Law with March 2, 2022. Her research focuses on innovation and technology law, the protection of fundamental and human rights and the intersection of law, innovation, and society.

After studying law at the University of Graz and the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain (Mag. iur, Dr. iur) and political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc.) she received her habilitation for Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and the related fields of European Union Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna. From January 2016 until February 2020, she held the position as Professor of Law and Head of the Institute of Law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. From March 2020 until February 2022, she was Professor of Public Law and European Economic Law at the University of Graz. She has wide experience in interdisciplinary research as well as in running and participating in nationally and internationally funded research projects.

Among others, she worked for the Austrian and the European Parliament as well as in the Federal Chancellery Constitutional Service. She held visiting positions at numerous renowned universities including the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Freiburg, the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University, the Mekelle University in Ethiopia, der Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law in Bhutan, the Macau University and the Technical University Munich.