Mario Martini holds the Chair of Administrative Science, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and European Law at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and is Deputy Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration. Since 2016, he is heading the programme area »Digitalisation« at the German Research Institute for Public Administration. In 2018/2019, he was a member of the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission. Until April 2010, he held a professorship in constitutional and administrative law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2006, he habilitated at Bucerius Law School with the thesis »Der Markt als Instrument hoheitlicher Verteilungslenkung«. In 1999, he received his doctorate with a thesis on environmental law. His research focuses in particular on IT law, environmental law, health law and public commercial law.
Bianca Thiessen has studied law and comparative law in Tübingen, Istanbul, Perpignan and Paris. Afterwards Ms Thiessen was a research fellow in the BMBF funded project Opmpos. Since 2021 she is pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Kahl at the university of Heidelberg.
Jonas Ganter has studied law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He then completed a PhD program at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer from 2017 to 2021, which he concluded with a dissertation on a migration law topic. At the same time, he was a research fellow in the BMBF funded research project OPMoPS at the German Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer. Since 2021, he is completing his legal traineeship in the district of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court.
