Dr. iur. Alina Wernick is an international legal scholar currently acting as a principal investigator of the research project "Smart city technologies’ long-term human rights risks," funded by Kone Foundation. She is a grant-funded researcher at the University of Helsinki and affiliated researcher at the university's Legal Tech lab. Also, she is a research director for innovation at the 89 Initiative think-do tank Belgium and an affiliated researcher in the Legal Tech Lab at the University of Helsinki.   Dr. Wernick wrote her doctoral thesis on patent law and open innovation, which was awarded a grade summa cum laude, at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty. Besides, she holds LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Helsinki.   Her academic experience encompasses research on data data-driven innovation, data governance and e-Health at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. She has completed the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, as well as conducted doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Her academic career began at Simlab, an interdisciplinary laboratory in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Aalto University, where she assisted Prof. Dr. Sirkka Jarvenpaa and researched open innovation and trade secrets.