Staff of the Forschungsstelle

E-Mail: franziska.keilbach(at)uni-wuerzburg.de

Franziska Keilbach is studying physics and law in Würzburg and has been a student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf since January 2023. From August to October 2020, she worked at CERN (Geneva) on detector construction and wrote programmes for the Atlas detector, among other things. She is interested in machine learning, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and data protection and copyright law.

Telefon: +49 931 31-82219
E-Mail: Adrian.Kleine-Kappenberg(at)uni-wuerzburg.de

Adrian Kleine-Kappenberg studied law at the University of Würzburg and passed the First State Examination in January 2023. He has been a student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf since 2018 and has been a graduate assistant since March 2023. His research focus lies in the area of metaverse.

E-Mail: Antonia.Krause(at)uni-wuerzburg.de

Antonia Krause studied law at the University of Würzburg and passed the First State Examination in January 2023. She has been a student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf since 2018 and has been a research assistant since April 2023, where she oversees the legal-informational cooperation project TargetJura. Her focus of interest lies in the area of digitization of the justice system.

E-Mail: leonora.qerimi(at)uni-wuerzburg.de

Leonora Qerimi is studying law at the University of Würzburg along with European law. She has been working as a student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf since July 2021. She has been supervising the SafeRoBAY project since August 2023. Her main areas of interest are European law, copyright law and the digitalisation of the justice system.

Telefon: +49 931 31-85244
E-Mail: Sina.Tenbrock-Ingenhorst(at)uni-wuerzburg.de

Sina Tenbrock-Ingenhorst studied law at the University of Würzburg, along with European law. During her studies, she was a student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Eckhard Pache. She successfully passed the First State Examination in July 2022. Since March 2023, she has been working as a graduate assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf. Her focus of interest is on the topic of law and digitalisation. In her doctoral thesis, she is working on the digitization of the judiciary, with a special focus on the recording of main hearings and the consequences for virtual reality.

E-Mail: sophie.garling(at)stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

Sophie Garling completed the First State Examination in Law at the University of Würzburg in 2018. Since then she has been employed as a graduate assistant in a law firm specializing in IT law, and at the same time, she is conducting research for her PhD. This work involves using various methods for the development of a system of legal experts.

Jille Kikonga studied in Cologne and Paris, commencing in October 2012, first on the German-French Law Course, which he completed in 2016 with the award of the Maȋtrise en Droit and an LL.B. He then passed the First State Examination in Law in Cologne in October 2018. Since April 2017, he has worked as a graduate assistant in international law firms. Since February 2019 his work as a graduate assistant has been in the field of intellectual property and technology. Since March 2019, he has also been employed at the University of Cologne as a graduate student assistant in their State Examination preparatory course, mainly correcting practice exams and writing sample exam question solutions. As an external doctoral student, he has conducted research since August 2019 under the supervision of Professor Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf into criminal law aspects of the dissemination of fake news.

E-Mail: kizilirmak.baran+wue(at)gmail.com

Baran Kizilirmak studied law at the Ankara University (Turkey) and completed his first master’s degree at the Istanbul University with the master’s thesis “Use of Data in Criminal Procedure Which are Obtained for Preventive Purpose”. Later, he completed a second master’s degree on European and European Legal Studies at the University of Hamburg, where he attended as a Jean Monnet scholarship holder. Successfully completing the degree as second in program and submitting his master’s thesis “Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Data Under GDPR Regime and Turkish Legal Framework” he obtained LL.M. degree. He has been working as a research assistant at the Kadir Has University (Turkey) at the Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law, where he temporarily left to conduct his doctoral research at the Forschungsstelle RobotRecht, under Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf’s supervision. Being a DAAD scholarship holder, he is writing his doctoral thesis on criminal liability arising from the use of autonomous systems. His main field of work is information technologies, privacy, artificial intelligence and criminal law.

E-Mail: christian.kleindopff(at)gmx.de

Christian Kleindopff studied law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg and successfully passed the first bar exam in January 2019. Following this, Mr. Kleindopff began his doctoral studies at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Hilgendorf in spring 2019 and is conducting research as an external doctoral candidate on issues of criminal and civil liability of drivers in connection with the use of driver assistance systems in road traffic. In addition to his doctorate, Mr. Kleindopff works as a research assistant in a major international law firm in Düsseldorf and is completing a Master of Laws in corporate law at the University of Cologne.

E-Mail: jannick.thonemann(at)stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

Jannick Thonemann studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and at the Uppsala Universitet in Sweden. After passing the First State Examination in Law in 2015, he passed the Second State Examination in Law in 2017, thereby completing his German legal education. Since 2018, he has been conducting research on questions of artificial intelligence as an external doctoral student. His research interests include the [legal] protection of AI software and the legal requirements for its use.