She researches on global inequality and transnational law making through private actors with a focus on the digital economy. Andrea also consults government agencies, start-ups and industry stakeholders on law and blockchain technology, with a focus on dispute resolution, the automation of decision-making, and algorithmic governance.

Andrea obtained her PhD in a jointly-awarded degree program between the University of Melbourne and the University of Vienna with a dissertation in the history of international investment law titled ‘Making the World Safe for Investment: The Protection of Foreign Property 1922-1959’. She was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School and lectures on Algorithmic Law and Governance at Sciences Po Paris. In 2020 she was a Fellow at the Berlin/Potsdam Research Group ‘The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?’.