Erik is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Doc.CH scholar of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is also a visiting research student at the University of Oxford and King’s College London in the UK, was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany, and worked as a research and teaching assistant of Professor Peter Georg Picht at the University of Zurich.

He graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Law from the University of Zurich. As part of his degrees, Erik also studied at the University of Hong Kong and King’s College London. His primary research interests are competition law and policy, and its intersections with intellectual property law, data regulation, and contract law, such as the licensing of standard essential patents under a FRAND commitment as well as data access and protection. For his PhD, he researches on the prohibition of abuse of dominance by imposing excessive prices or other unfair trading conditions under EU and Swiss competition law. Erik has been a TTLF Fellow since 2021.