These are the short profiles of the lecturers you will meet during IN SITU

1. Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó has studied law, philosophy and linguistics in Vienna and Paris. In 1997 he got his Dr. iur. (Dissertation in legal theory). Between 1990-2000 he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria). Since 2000 he has been a full Professor of Legal Informatics and IT-Law at the University of Hanover. He has many publications, and has carried teaching and consulting positions in all fields of IT-law, legal informatics, civil law, legal history and legal theory. He is also Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics (together with Prof. Dr. Metzger) and Director of the course of study for IT-law and legal information at the University of Vienna.
   
   

2. Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard)
   Since 2008  he has been a Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics (together with Prof. Dr. Forgó). Member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.Former research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.
   
   

3. Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Kilian
   President of the Federation of International Research Institutes on Law and Information Technology in Europe (FIRILITE)
   Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics until the 31.03.2007
   Founder of the Institute for Legal Informatics.
   
   Dr. Tina Krügel, LL.M. has studied law in Hannover and completed her legal clerkship in Hanover/Johannesburg (SA). In 2002 she attended the LL.M.-Programme EULISP in Hanover/Oslo. In 2005 she got her Dr. iur. (e-commerce law). Since 2004 she has been an attorney at law and works for the IRI as a research associate focusing mainly on data protection law. She has several publications in the field of e-commerce law and data protection law.
   
   

4. Dr. Nils Hoppe, LL.B read law at Nottingham Law School and graduated in 2000 with a thesis on legal and ethical issues of organ transplantation. He worked as a legal assistant in a large English law firm and as a legal counsel to a University Hospital in Germany before returning to academia in 2003. His PhD (2008) is in property rights in the biosciences. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science and is pursuing a research project on the definition of risk in biomedical research.
   
   

5. Dipl.-Jur. Eva Egermann, LL.M. studied law in Hanover where she graduated in June 2007 with honours. She took part in the LL.M. programme in IT-Law at the University of Hanover and the University of Leuven (EULISP). Since July 2007, she has worked as a research associate at the IRI whilst focusing mainly on intellectual property rights. Her PhD will be in the field of internet regulation.
   
   

6. Dipl.-Jur.Dennis Jlussi studied law and political science at the universities in Potsdam and Hannover and completedhis studies with an honours degree in 2008. Since 2009, he has worked as a senior research associate at IRI and on his doctoral thesis in the field of intellectual property. Dennis Jlussi has also conducted research in the fields of data protection law, telecommunications law and cybercrime. He holds a part-time position as legal & data protection officer in an internet startup company for computer aided research.
   
   

7. Dipl.-Jur.Malek Barudi studied law in Hannover. After graduating with honors in June 2008, he started to work as a research associate at IRI.Besides this occupation, Malek is pursuing his in-depth interest in literature and law and working on a PhD thesis with focus on copyright law.  
   
   

8. Marcelo Corrales LL.M., is an Attoney-at-Law registered in Paraguay. He studied law at the Universidad Católica de Asunción and received his Master's degrees in Law and Information Technology and European Intellectual Property Law from Stockholm University, Sweden. Since October 2007 he is a Research Associate at the IRI, University of Hanover in Germany where he works in EU funded projects and gives lectures on Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Biotechnology Law. He is also currently pursuing his PhD on intellectual property issues of biological databases with a special focus on the best equilibrium between participants and researchers and the sharing of benefits for those individuals and groups involved in such research.
   

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