Mario Martini holds the Chair of Administrative Science, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and European Law at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and is Deputy Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration. Since 2016, he is heading the programme area »Digitalisation« at the German Research Institute for Public Administration. In 2018/2019, he was a member of the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission. Until April 2010, he held a professorship in constitutional and administrative law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2006, he habilitated at Bucerius Law School with the thesis »Der Markt als Instrument hoheitlicher Verteilungslenkung«. In 1999, he received his doctorate with a thesis on environmental law. His research focuses in particular on IT law, environmental law, health law and public commercial law.