Prof. Dr. Franziska Boehm is Professor of Intellectual Property Rights at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Vice President Intellectual Property and Data Science at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. She studied law in Germany and France, earning her PhD from the University of Luxembourg on data protection and information sharing in the EU. Her academic path includes roles at the University of Münster, University of Luxembourg, and interdisciplinary centers focused on IT law and data governance. Her research bridges European law, privacy, and information infrastructure with a strong focus on digital rights and legal harmonization in the EU.