Appointment: Melinda Lohmann

Melinda Lohmann was born in Zurich on 14 December 1985. After completing her law degree at the University of St.Gallen, she completed a doctorate on legal issues relating to vehicle automation and was admitted to the bar. In summer 2016, Lohmann was appointed Assistant Professor of Business Law with a focus on information law and director of the Research Centre for Information Law at the University of St.Gallen. She wrote her habilitation thesis on contract law issues relating to digitalisation and was awarded a teaching licence for private and technology law at the University of St.Gallen in autumn 2023. Since then, she has worked as an Associate Professor of Private and Information Law at the University of St.Gallen and is Director of the Institute for Law of Innovation and Technology (LIT-HSG). 

Research at the interface of law and innovative technologies

Melinda Lohmann conducts research at the interface of law and innovative technologies. She has a soft spot for self-driving vehicles, robots and artificial intelligence and researches how the law should deal with these innovations on the one hand and how technological innovations are changing the legal market on the other. Melinda Lohmann is Director of the Institute for Law of Innovation and Technology (LIT-HSG), where she leads various research projects in the field of technology law. She is an Associate Researcher at the Robotics and Biology Laboratory of the Technical University of Berlin at the Institute for Computer Engineering and Microelectronics and a Scientific Advisor to the Swiss robot manufacturer F&P Personal Robotics.