Matthias Lehmann is Full Professor of Private Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna, and Professor of European and Comparative Business Law at Radboud University Nijmegen. His primary research interests focus on the international and comparative dimensions of financial law and cross-border dispute resolution.

He has held visiting academic positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University, and Stanford University, and is regularly invited as a guest professor at leading European universities, including Sorbonne University (France), where he teaches a course on the law and regulation of crypto markets.

Prof. Lehmann has authored numerous publications in German, English, French, and Spanish. He is a member of the European Law Institute, the American Law Institute, Academia Europaea, the International Association of Comparative Law, the Association Henri Capitant, and the European Banking Institute.

He has contributed to the European Commission’s Expert Group on Conflict of Laws Regarding Securities and Claims and participated in working groups of the UK Financial Markets Law Committee, UNIDROIT, and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), including on issues relating to digital assets and digital tokens.