Assistant Professor Kalpana Tyagi

Overview

Kalpana Tyagi is the Assistant Professor for Intellectual Property and Competition Law at Maastricht University. She is the founding and managing coordinator for TILC, The Innovator’s Legal Aid Clinic.

Tyagi holds a multidisciplinary PhD (summa cum laude) from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, where she worked as a Max Planck junior research fellow for IP & competition. Tyagi has also worked as a research policy analyst at the International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, whereby she worked on standard setting, 5G patents and telecommunications policy. Thereafter, she with a third party funder, Vannin Capital in London, whereby she evaluated the funding potential of arbitrating and litigating IP-related disputes. While working at the University of Århus, Denmark, she developed the Center for Law & Digitalization with focus on emerging technologies such as AI & the Blockchain technology. Tyagi’s main areas of interest relate to the interface of intellectual property rights and competition law, particularly in the context of digitalization and sustainability.