Elisabeth Steindl

Elisabeth Steindl is a legal scholar specialising in digitalisation and innovation. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, technology, and ethics. Committed to advancing responsible technological progress, she brings together legal expertise with a strong interdisciplinary grounding in the humanities to address complex societal challenges in technology governance.

Her new book, A Datafied Mind: Untangling EU Regulation of Emotion Technology and Neurotechnology, was published in October 2025 by Cambridge University Press. Dr Steindl is currently affiliated with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety and the Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna.