Katarina Foss-Solbrekk is a Senior DPhil (PhD) candidate in law at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on improving access to generic/biosimilar medicines under European patent law. Outside her doctoral research, she maintains a key interest in how data protection law may be used to protect and enable greater sharing of data to facilitate medical research. 

Katarina has published articles in leading IP/tech journals, presented her work in several forums at the University of Oxford and at the EPIP Conference, and contributed to the Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law. Her published research was also recently cited in a decision by the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office and awarded the 2023 European Policy for Intellectual Property Young Scholar Award.