Evelyne Putz

Evelyne Putz has been working as a research assistant in the department of Prof. Maria Bertel at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz since December 2024. In the EducationalAI project, she investigates legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of AI in education. Since October 2025, she has been pursuing her doctoral studies in law as a DOC scholarship holder of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Her dissertation focuses on data protection, privacy, and security issues in the context of digital central bank money and digital identity systems. The dissertation project is based at the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz and is being supervised on an interdisciplinary basis at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna (Research Group Security and Privacy).

Research interests
Evelyne Putz's research focuses on the intersection of law and technology, particularly the constitutional and administrative challenges of digital transformation. Her work centers on the legally secure and constitutionally compliant integration of digital technologies into state and public infrastructures. She focuses on the legal requirements for digital identity systems, financial innovations (especially digital central bank money and crypto assets), and artificial intelligence. To expand her interdisciplinary expertise, she is also studying artificial intelligence at JKU Linz.