Univ. Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó studied law in Vienna and Paris, was an assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna and its IT officer from 1990 to 2000; in 1998, he founded and still heads the University Course for Information and Media Law at the University of Vienna, Professor for Legal Informatics and IT Law at the Leibniz University of Hanover from 2000 to 2017, where he was, amongst others, Head of the Institute for Legal Informatics, Data Protection Officer and CIO. Since 2017 Professor of Technology and Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna, since 2018 member of the Austrian Data Protection Council. Extensive teaching, research, consulting and third-party funding activities on all issues of IT law, legal informatics and basic legal principles, as well as numerous activities in legal education, especially as host of the podcast Ars Boni.