Frederike Zufall

Dr. Frederike Zufall is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, working under Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel. She has held academic positions at the Free University Brussels (VUB) and Waseda University, Tokyo, focusing on law, technology, and interdisciplinary research.

• Current Role: Senior Research Fellow (2020–present), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
• Past Roles: Senior Researcher at VUB's LSTS group (2019–2020), Assistant Professor at Waseda University (2016–2018)

Her research spans Legal Tech, IT Law, Data Protection Law, and Comparative Law, often combining legal analysis with socio-technical perspectives. She received the prestigious Elsa-Neumann Stipendium for her doctoral work at Humboldt University of Berlin.