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Denise Feldner
M. B. L.
Lawyer
Experience
Denise Feldner advises on investments, invests in new technologies and works as a strategy consultant, particularly in the field of strategic capability.
Former activities: Research management at the University of Heidelberg and Establishment of a platform for research, development and technology transfer in the fields of life science technologies, clean tech and printing technologies in Heidelberg, financed with 100 million euros from the federal government and industry.
She has 16 years of professional experience outside the legal profession and 10 years of experience in law firms and notary’s offices.
She was a Young Leader of the BDI, the British German Forum, Wilton Park and a Fellow of the Helmholtz Academy for Executives of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers.
She is a member of Atlantik Brücke.
Education
- General Management, Prof. Fredmund Malik, St. Gallen
- 2008 Interdisciplinary master’s degree in business law for technology companies
- 2008 2nd state examination
- Legal clerkship at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and at an international law firm
- Studied law at Humboldt University and international business law at the Catholic University of Leuven
- Comparative law at the Bibo Istvan College of the ELTE University in Budapest and at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens
Author and speaker (selection)
- Co-author “Critical Infrastructure Security and Resiliency” Handbook 2, Strategic Studies Institute US Army War College and NATO Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism, 2022
- Essay in “Human Scale Remeasured”, AEDES Architecture Forum Exhibition Catalog, 2021
- Interview with Prof. Dr. Ingo Rollwagen in the 10th Bosch Megatrend Report 2021
- Editor “Redesigning Organizations-Concepts for the Connected Society”, Springer 2020
- Book review “Blackbox Nord Korea” in International Politics of the DGAP, 2018
- Co-author of “Sustainability in a Digital World” in Osburg, Lohrmann, Springer 2017
- “Kooperationsmanagement” in the Handbook of Science Management, Lemmens Verlag 2017
- “Die Sammlungen der Universität” and ‘Innovationsbeziehungen’ in the Science Atlas of Heidelberg University 2011
- Master’s thesis “The digital copy in copyright law” 2008
Previous positions
- 2018 Foundation of a consulting company in Berlin
- Envoy to the Global Council of Research Intensive University Networks @LERU in Leuven
- Until 2017 Member of the Board of the Science Management Network
- 2015 Founding President of the Alumni Club of the Catholic University of Leuven
- 2012 Founding Managing Director of German U15 e.V. – association of 15 research-intensive and traditional universities
- Head of Rectorate Office Ruperto Carola Heidelberg
- Inhouse Counsel InnovationLab GmbH in Heidelberg
- Head of the research team of a medium-sized law boutique in Berlin
