Joaquín Santuber

Dr Joaquín Santuber is a lawyer and currently leads the research group of the Metaverse Lab, LIFT-C, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Joaquín’s work addresses questions around design and governance of technology in public sector organizations from a desing perspective.He obtained a Ph.D. in Design in IT Systems and Technologies at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany, adn part of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program. As a postdoctoral researcher he worked on the topic of designing for posthuman legalities—human-nature-machine relations, digital identities, and spatiality at the Center for Advanced Design Studies, Palo Alto, USA in collaboration with the School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he serves as a visiting professor.

Joaquín has been Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, guest scholar at the Center for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal and the Humboldt’s Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany; and was also co-founder of This is Legal Design, Berlin.