Philipp Schöbel

About

Philipp Schöbel works as a research assistant at Humboldt University in Berlin. At the Weizenbaum Institute, he aims to conduct research on the regulation of AI and biological risks. Specifically, he wants to examine how the proposed EU Biotech Act intends to address systemic risks associated with AI models in biotechnology.

Philipp studied at the University of Potsdam and completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal. Since 2020, he has been conducting research on the regulation of AI and robotics. In his dissertation, Philipp is examining the connection between AI regulation and environmental risks. In doing so, he is investigating the intersections of data protection, environmental, and product safety law.

Philipp is a member of the German Society for Law and Informatics, the German Society for Agricultural Law, OpenRewi, and the Robotics & AI Law Society. Most recently, he published an article together with his colleague Anna Maria Yang-Jacobi on systemic risks in the age of generative AI (RDi 2025, 627–634). An article by Dr. Mathias Honer and him on “AI and Robotics in Agriculture – Data Protection, AI Regulation, Liability” will soon be published in the legal handbook “Artificial Intelligence and Robotics” (edited by Ebers / Heinze / Steinrötter).
 

Research Group: Norm Setting and Decision Processes