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ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Irmgard Marboe

Head of the NPOC Space Law Austria

npocspace.law@univie.ac.at

Irmgard Marboe is Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna since 2007.

After her doctoral thesis in European law (1994), she focused on public international law and in particular on international investment law. Her habilitation thesis (2007) dealt with the calculation of compensation and damages by international courts and tribunals. In the field of space law, her research interests included the implementation of international law rules into national space law, legal issues of telecommunications and space technology, European space policy, legal challenges of small satellites, the importance of soft law in outer space law and legal issues of planetary defence.

From 2008 to 2013, she was chair of the Working Group on National Space Legislation of the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), whose work led to the adoption in 2013 of the UN General Assembly Resolution on "Recommendations on National Legislation Relevant to the Peaceful Exploration and Use of Outer Space". Between 2009 and 2015, she advised the BMVIT on the drafting of the Austrian Space Act (BGBl I No. 132/2011) and the Austrian Space Regulation (BGBl II No. 36/2015). In 2016, she received the Distinguished Services Award of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL). In 2014/15 and 2016 she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (USA), and in 2016/17 a Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University (Australia).

She speaks German, English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Michael Bigl