Aphrodite Okoutsidou has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Media Law and Public Law, including its Legal Theoretical Foundations, at the Law Faculty of Universität Hamburg since February 2025. She supports Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz in research and teaching while coordinating the work between Universität Hamburg and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut.
Since December 2025, she has also been working as a research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research. Initially on the STEAM project and now on the SONAR project, where she deals with issues relating to copyright and data protection law.
In addition, she serves as a representative on the Faculty Council for academic staff at the University of Hamburg and is also involved in mentoring students.
She studied law at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the University of Münster, specializing in public law. During her studies, Aphrodite Okoutsidou took part in an in-house moot court on the topic “The protection of anonymous expression of opinion on the Internet.” She completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm. During that time, she worked as a research assistant for Prof. Dr. Jörg Ennuschat at the Chair of Public Law, especially administrative law, at the Rhine University Bochum.
Her research and professional interests focus on public broadcasting law.
