Prof. Amélie Favreau

Biography

Amélie Favreau is Full Professor of Private Law at Université Grenoble Alpes and a member of the Centre de recherches juridiques (CRJ). She holds a doctorate in private law from Université Pierre Mendès France. Her research focuses on intellectual property and the regulation of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum technologies, with around one hundred publications in these fields. In the quantum field, she led the ANR-funded TIQuA programme on quantum technologies, contributed to the intellectual property chapter of the EU Quantum Flagship’s research agenda (SRIA) and is co-authoring a UNESCO chapter on quantum ethics, law and society in Europe. She leads technological sovereignty questions within UGA’s QuantAlps quantum initiative and supervises doctoral research on adaptive quantum governance. Her work examines how intellectual property, technological sovereignty and fundamental rights shape the governance of quantum technologies and international cooperation in this field. She directs the INNOVACS research federation, which brings together some twenty laboratories under the joint supervision of Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, Inria and INRAE. She co-directs the Chair in Climate Science Diplomacy with Université de Sherbrooke. She is the author of L’essentiel du droit du numérique (Gualino, 2024; new edition 2026), editor of La rémunération en propriété intellectuelle (Dalloz, 2026) and co-editor, with Burkhard Schafer, of Code versus Code: When the Computer Code Meets the Legal Code (Larcier-Intersentia, 2026).