Dr. Elias Moser

Postdoctoral Researcher

Focus in Research

Elias Moser is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck, where he has been working since March 2026 on the project “Law and Ethics of Innovation: Rethinking Progress in Crises.” Prior to this, he conducted research and taught for several years in the field of Practical Philosophy at the University of Graz. He completed his doctorate in 2017 in legal philosophy at the University of Bern with the dissertation “Inalienable Rights” (Mohr Siebeck). He then worked as a researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Bern, where he had previously studied political and economic philosophy as well as economics. Further research positions took him to the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna (including the project “Nano-Norms-Nature”). He has also held research stays at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. His research focuses on legal philosophy and the ethics of technology.

E-Mail: elias.moser@uibk.ac.at

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