Team
Prof. Dr. Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor
E-Mail: fruzsina.molnar-gabor@uni-heidelberg.de
Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor is Professor of International Medical and Health Law and Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law of Heidelberg University and also Research Group Leader at the BioQuant Center. She received her doctorate in law (summa cum laude) from the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the international governance of biotechnology and was a research group leader at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Molnár-Gábor is a member of several international expert committees and scientific advisory bodies in the field of health data processing, including the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE). The EGE advises the European Commission on ethical, societal and fundamental rights issues arising from scientific and technological innovations. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She received the Manfred Fuchs Award in 2015 (together with Jan Korbel) and the VG Wort Promotion Award for her PhD thesis in 2016. She was awarded the Young Scholar Award of the Research Network on EU Administrative Law (2019). She is the recipient of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2020.
Dr. Adam Dampc
research associate
E-Mail: adam.s.dampc@uni-heidelberg.de
Adam Dampc studied law in Heidelberg, Krakow and St. Petersburg. He worked for commercial law firms in Munich, Kiev, Mannheim and Frankfurt and joined Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group in 2017. His focus is on the commercial law aspects of data protection and intellectual property. In parallel, he completed his doctorate in comparative law at the Institute for Financial and Tax Law at the University of Heidelberg. He is currently working as a research assistant in the area of data security law in connection with business and science in the research group.
Panna Darazs
research associate
E-Mail: panna.darazs@uni-heidelberg.de
Panna Darazs studied law in Heidelberg and Aix-en-Provence, specializing in “European Economic Law and the Digital Single Market”. She has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg) since 2019. She is doing her doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller on the topic “Private liability and data law aspects of germline interventions with CRISPR/Cas9 in human medicine”. Since October 2024, she has been a research assistant in the research group of Prof. Dr. Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor in the field of legal compliance in the processing of medical data.
Jonathan Giebel
scientific assistant
E-Mail: jonathan.giebel@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
Jonathan Giebel studies law at the University of Heidelberg with a focus on medical and health law. He has been supporting Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group since 2023.
Anna Lina Gummersbach, LL.M.
research associate
E-Mail: anna_lina.gummersbach@uni-heidelberg.de
Anna Lina Gummersbach studied law in Heidelberg with a focus on international law and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with a specialization in Public International Law from the Universiteit Leiden. Since October 2022, she has been working as a research assistant in the research group of Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor in the field of data protection law, especially on issues related to the processing of health-related data.
Alena Hahn
research associate
E-Mail: alena.hahn@uni-heidelberg.de
Alena Hahn is a fully qualified lawyer. She studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University as well as the University of California San Diego. She specialized in criminal sciences, particularly in the field of medical criminal law. Moreover, she was a two-time recipient of the “Deutschlandstipendium”, a scholarship awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Furthermore, she completed the elective stage of her legal clerkship at the Regional Council in Darmstadt and has supported various major international law firms in recent years. Since October 2024, she has been working as a research assistant in Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group, particularly in the area of compliance.
Matthias Kerr
external research associate
E-Mail: matthias.kerr@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Matthias Kerr studied philosophy, ethics, german studies (Staatsexamen) as well as literature- and cultural theory (M.A.) at the University of Tübingen, specialising in applied ethics. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the “International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)”. Since January 2024, he has been part of Prof. Molnár-Gábor’s research group, working as a medical ethicist for the “German Cancer Research Center” (DKFZ), in the field of ethics in artificial intelligence, medicine and health care.
He is also completing his PhD at the University of Kiel on ethics and decision making regarding global agribusiness and consumption patterns.
Clara Koziol
scientific assistant
E-Mail: clara.koziol@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
Clara Koziol is currently studying law at the University of Heidelberg sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation. She has been supporting Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group as a student assistant in the field of data protection law since 2023.
Andreas Merk
research associate
E-Mail: andreas.merk@uni-heidelberg.de
Andreas Merk studied law at the Universities of Regensburg, Cambridge (UK) and Heidelberg, specialising in public international law. Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (09/2021-09/2023) with rotations a.o. at the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, an international law firm and the legal department of the European External Action Service in Brussels. His research focusses on the law of new technologies. PhD project in the field of regulation of AI in the public health sector.
Giovani Nantcha, LL.M.
research associate
E-Mail: giovani.nantcha@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Giovani Nantcha studied German and French law at the University of Cologne and the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. He then obtained an LL.M. in European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges. Since December 2023, he has been working as a research assistant in the research group of Prof. Dr Molnár-Gábor.
Marc Nestor
Project coordinator / scientific associate
E-Mail: marc.nestor@uni-heidelberg.de
Marc Nestor studied Economics (B.Sc., M.Sc.) with a focus on statistics and behavioral economics in Heidelberg. He was previously employed at the University of Heidelberg and at various management consultancies in Weinheim and Mannheim, and most recently worked for the administration of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Since 2022, he has been working for Networking and Communications in the research group of Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor.
Patrick Neuberger
Office Manager
E-Mail: patrick.neuberger@uni-heidelberg.de
Patrick Neuberger studied Philosophy (MA, BA) and Political Science (BA) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. He previously worked at the University of Heidelberg and as a teacher at various private schools. Since 2023 he is part of the research group of Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor.
Julian Sellner
external scientific supporter
E-Mail: julian.sellner@uni-heidelberg.de
Julian Sellner studied law at the University of Heidelberg after completing his psychology degree (B.Sc.) at the University of Konstanz, specializing in German and European administrative law. Since October 2023, he has been a trainee lawyer at the Regional Court of Heidelberg. He has been working in Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group since 2019 and is currently involved in data protection law projects on AI in medicine and on European and international data exchange.
Ely Silaban
research associate
E-Mail: ely.silaban@uni-heidelberg.de
Ely Silaban studied law in North Sumatra, Indonesia and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) specialising in International Business Law at the University of Augsburg. Through her professional experience at university hospitals in Göttingen and Hamburg, she has focused on health data protection and is currently doing her doctorate at the University of Göttingen on data exchange platforms for health data. Since January 2024, she has been supporting the research group of Prof. Dr Molnár-Gabór as a research assistant in the field of data protection law, in particular the processing of health data.
Jacob H. Städtler, M.A.
research associate
E-Mail: jacob.staedtler@uni-heidelberg.de
Jacob H. Städtler studied political science and sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Bachelor of Arts) and Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg (Master of Arts). In the context of a research internship in the summer semester of 2022, he examined the voting behaviour of members of the German Bundestag with regard to the draft laws on the concept of euthanasia. Since 2023, he has been part of Prof Molnár-Gábor's research group and, in this context, has been working on the topic of data protection in the context of medical projects.
Timo Weiß
externer wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
E-Mail: timo.weiss@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Timo Weiß studied philosophy, mathematics and psychology in Bonn and Kyoto.
As a medical ethicist, he is part of the Scientific Competence Center for Ethics and Law of AI led by Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor at the AI Health Innovation Cluster since 2024.
Miranda Mourby
external scientific supporter
E-Mail: miranda.mourby@law.ox.ac.uk
Miranda Mourby is a non-practising barrister, called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2012. She has worked at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (‘HeLEX’) since 2017 as a Researcher in Law, with a focus on data protection law in biomedical research. She joined Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group in 2023, to collaborate on projects relating to privacy and information law. She is also completing her PhD on personal rights within secondary uses of health data via the University of Sheffield.
Simon Parker
external scientific supporter
E-Mail: simon.parker@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Simon Parker has a Masters in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. He works at the DKFZ as the Data Protection Coordinator for the German Human Genome-phenome Archive (GHGA) focused on the production of data protection and legal documents. He joined Prof. Dr. Molnár-Gábor's research group in 2022 to provide scientific support the group in projects that relate to the use of personal data in research. Simon is also working to complete a doctorate in quantitative Criminology.
