Christiane Wendehorst has been Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the Institute for Innovation and Digitalization in Law since 2008. She is also a founding member, former president (2017-2021), and, since 2021, Scientific Director of the European Law Institute (ELI), as well as president of Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (ÖAW). Wendehorst is an elected member of the Academia Europea (AE), the International Academy for Comparative Law (IACL), and the American Law Institute (ALI), among others. In 2024, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, and in 2025 the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. Her work currently focuses on the legal challenges of digitalization.