Michèle Finck is a professor of artificial intelligence law and director of the CZS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law at the University of Tübingen. She previously worked at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and has been a Visiting Professor at LUISS University and a Visiting Fellow at University College London. Michèle co-directs the CSZ Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law. She is a member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science' and serves on its steering committee. She moreover represents the University of Tübingen at the CIVIS Hub 'Digital and Technological Transformation' (together with Regina Ammicht Quinn).
Her research focuses on the regulation of artificial intelligence as well as on EU data law. Recent research projects have focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence by public administrations, the explainability of AI, on access to data for environmental purposes, on the regulation of data intermediaries under the Data Governance Act and on the notions of the data controller and personal data under the GDPR. Professor Finck has been a member of a number of expert committees on digitalization, including the Council of Europe's ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence. She moreover has ample experience advising national institutions as well as the European Commission and the European Parliament on different occasions. She is currently a member of the UN Working Group on Data Governance at all Levels.
