Katarina Foss-Solbrekk

Katarina Foss-Solbrekk is an expert adviser in data governance at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, based in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford, focusing on enabling data sharing to further medical research on infectious diseases and emerging infections. She is also a postdoc at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL) within the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen, and a Research Associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford, where she completed her DPhil in law. Her research focuses on pharmaceutical patent law, with the aim of ensuring timely and affordable access to generic/biosimilar drugs. Katarina has published articles in leading IP/tech journals, presented her work in several forums at the University of Oxford and at the EPIP Conference, and contributed to the Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law. Her published research on algorithms and trade secrets was recently cited in an Opinion of an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice, while her research on divisional patent applications was cited by the WIPO Standing Committee Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, as well as in a decision by the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, and awarded the 2023 European Policy for Intellectual Property Young Scholar Award.