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Simonetta Vezzoso

Simonetta Vezzoso Tenured Professor of competition policy and intellectual property (Professore Aggregato) and senior researcher at Università di Trento, Department of Economics and Management. After taking her law degree, Simonetta has been practicing as a lawyer specializing in commercial and company law in Milan and Munich. Thanks to generous research grants provided by the Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation, she could soon go back to research. In 1992 she became tenured researcher at Trento University, where she has been since teaching various courses, such as Commercial Law, Competition Policy and Intellectual Property. Education: Law Degree, University degli Studi di Milano (Italy), summa cum laude PhD in Economics, Universität Witten Herdecke, magna cum laude