Dr. iur. Carlotta Manz

Carlotta Manz gained her master's degree in law from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). During her studies, she spent one semester at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and she received the prize for the best master thesis in the field of international and multicultural business law at the University of Lausanne. 

 

In 2020, she was the academic intern at the Permanent Representation of Switzerland to the Council of Europe and, at the end of the same year, she started her doctoral thesis “Use of Genetic Data by Private Parties: Addressing the Threats to Human Rights”. Her doctoral project obtained the Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.CH grant and she was a visiting PhD student at the Laboratory of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy of the University of Osaka and at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies of the University of Oxford. 

Carlotta defended her doctoral thesis in 2024 at the University of Lausanne and received the mention summa cum laude. At the same time, she obtained the certificate of the Ecole d’avocature at the University of Geneva.

 

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the DIKE research group. Her main research interests are International Human Rights Law, New Technologies, Data Protection and Global Health Law. She speaks fluently English, French and Italian.