Nikolaus Forgó is Professor of IT and IP Law and the Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna. He has done extensive dogmatic and third-party funded research for European, German and Austrian clients regarding questions of IT law, in particular data protection and data security law and evaluation and consulting activities i.a. for the European Commission, the German Research Foundation, the German Ethics Council as well as various German and Austrian ministries.