ViennaAssist. Prof. Dr. Žiga Škorjanc
CEO for Austria
Žiga is Managing Director at lexICT (Vienna), Assistant Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at the European Faculty of Law of Nova Univerza (Slovenia), Post Doc at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law of the University of Vienna, and Member of the Legal Expert Group of the Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). He has passed the Austrian bar exam (Vienna Regional Court of Appeals).
Areas of Interest
Digital Health
Privacy and ethics play an important role for research and data-based approaches in medicine.
Corporations and Transactions
Data privacy management in corporate groups. IT and data protection consulting for transactions. Acquisition and sale of data.
Financial Sector
Advice on and implementation of sector-specific data protection requirements at FinTechs, banks and other actors in the financial sector.
Employees
Data protection compliant processing of employee data in companies.
Career
since 12/2022
University Assistant (Post Doc) and Habilitation Candidate at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law of the University of Vienna
since 4/2021
CEO at lexICT Austria (Vienna)
10/2020
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, Expert Group Legal
01/2018
University Assistant (Prae Doc) at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law of the University of Vienna
10/2017
Bar exam (Higher Regional Court Vienna)
2/2014
Trainee Lawyer in Vienna
10/2008
Diploma studies of law at the University of Vienna (specialization: corporate and commercial law)
Publications, talks and teaching
2026
Law and digital technologies
European Faculty of Law, Nova University, ongoing