Erik Habich is a doctoral student and Candoc stipendee at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, pursuing his PhD on the abuse of dominance by excessive pricing and unfair trading conditions under Swiss and EU competition law. He graduated in law from the University of Zurich in 2020, after participating in study abroad programs at King’s College London, UK, as well as the University of Hong Kong, China, and was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany. From 2017 to 2021, Erik worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Professor Peter Georg Picht (University of Zurich) focusing on competition law, intellectual property law, and the fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing of standard essential patents. Erik’s current fields of research include competition law, in particular the abuse and regulation of dominance, as well as the licensing of standard essential patents under a FRAND commitment and related questions of competition law, patent law, contract law, and procedural law. He has been a TTFL Fellow since 2021.