Luzia Ferenschild

About

Luzia Ferenschild is a research assistant and PhD candidate at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. During her fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute, she is examining the interplay between the enacting terms and the recitals in European economic data law.

Her doctoral research focuses on the respective economic regime of the Data Act, in particular the financial participation of users in the value creation generated by Internet of Things data. She is also interested in overarching social questions relating to the data economy and their regulation through European law.

Luzia is a member of the ‘Just Transition’ Graduate School at MLU Halle, the junior researcher network on ‘IT&Law’, as well as the PhD network of the Deutscher Juristinnenbund (German Women Layers Association)

Research Group: Norm Setting and Decision Processes (July-September 2026)