Smart Urban Mobility Law, Regulation, and Policy

Dr. Michèle Finck, LL.M. is a (tenured) Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. She previously worked at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. Michèle holds a doctorate in EU law from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. degree from the European University Institute and a dual degree in French and English Law (King's College London / Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne). She was a visiting researcher at New York University from 2013 — 2014. Michèle's research agenda engages with various aspects of the data economy. She is an editor of the Cambridge Handbook on the Law and Regulation of the Sharing Economy (together with Nestor Davidson and John Infranca) and the author of ‘Subnational Authorities in EU Law’ (OUP 2017) as well as 'Blockchain Regulation and Governance' (Cambridge University Press 2019).

Dr. Matthias Lamping Born grew up in Spain and studied law in Salzburg, Austria. After concluding his doctoral studies on the interface of intellectual property and competition law, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich as a senior research fellow. Matthias maintains an international network and pursues an interdisciplinary focus in his work. He is active as a visiting lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg and the Tongji University in Shanghai, and serves as an associate editor of Delphi, an interdisciplinary journal on emerging technologies. His research examines the interaction of intellectual property protection and innovation processes, including the legal and regulatory framework of research and development. The focus of his work is on new technologies and business models, specifically in the areas of life sciences and the data economy. His experience in interdisciplinary research extends, in particular, to economics and sociology. He is a member of the Institute’s Committee and is responsible for the Institute’s lecture series on patent law.

Dr. Valentina Moscon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Her fields of interest are Copyright Law and Copyright-related Rights (European, International and National); Information Regulation; Open Access and University Technology Transfer; Intellectual Property and Competition Law (in particular with regard to Technology- and Content-driven Markets); Law & Economics; Civil Law (in particular, Contract Law and Tort Law);Comparative Law.

Heiko Richter, Dipl.-Kfm., LL.M. (Columbia) is a Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. His fields of interest are Competition Law; Copyright Law; Information Regulation (Access and Re-use); Law & Economics.