Dr. Natascha Just is currently Associate Professor at Michigan State University. She was a Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Division on Media Change & Innovation, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is also a Fellow of the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF). Natascha Just holds a M.A. in Communication Science/Romance Philology (1997) and a Ph.D. in Communication Science (2001) from the University of Vienna. She was the recipient of a three year Hertha Firnberg Grant from the Austrian National Science Fund and worked as Hertha Firnberg Scholar at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria (2005-2008). She was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford Law School (2007), a Post Doctoral Fellow on International Communication at the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2004-2005); a Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of the research group "European Information Society" (1998-2004); and a lecturer for media economics and politics at the Department for Communication, University of Vienna (2003).