Iana Kazeeva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. She studied international commercial and tax law in Moscow and holds a Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D. equivalent) in international financial law (dissertation on fiscal decentralization). She has an LL.M. degree in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna and completed the U.S. intellectual property law certificate program at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Department, she worked at the Mountain View office of a California-based media technology company, primarily engaged in reviewing and negotiating technology and commercial contracts. She also gained practical experience as a senior legal counsel at the legal department of a global producer of mineral fertilizers based in Moscow, focusing on project finance and legal compliance. Her academic research interests include legal regulation of AI, intellectual property and contract law.