Seraina Grünewald

Doctorate of Law (Dr. iur.) (summa cum laude), University of Zurich (2012)

Admission to the Swiss bar (with distinction) (2008)

Master of Law (MLaw) (magna cum laude), University of Bern (2006)

Bachelor of Law (BLaw) (magna cum laude), University of Bern (2005)

Part-time Professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (since 2024)

Professor of European and comparative financial law, Radboud University, the Netherlands (2020-2023)

Assistant Professor of financial market law, University of Zurich (2014-2020)

Research Associate (Postdoc), University of Liechtenstein (2013)

Traineeship at the European Central Bank (Legal Services) (2012)

Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2011/2012), Yale Law School (2010/2011) and Columbia Law School (2009)

Fund Internship Program, International Monetary Fund (2011)

Research Associate/PhD student, University of Zurich (2008-2010)

University of St. Gallen

• Business and tax law
• Integrationsseminar Finanzmarktrecht
• Integrationsleistung "Geldrecht und Geldökonomie"
• Introduction to European law

European University Institute

• Executive courses in the areas of digital currencies, sustainable finance and bank resolution

LLM Programme of the European Banking Institute

• Courses in the areas of ESG and central banking

Member of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association (MOCOMILA) (since 2023)

Member of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI) (since 2018)

Fellowship under the ECB Legal Research Programme 2020 for a research project on the digital euro (with Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht and Benjamin Geva)

Issekutz prize for outstanding achievements in economic law, awarded for the doctoral dissertation (2012)

Grant by the Swiss-American Society for the research stay at Harvard Law School (2011)

Doctoral fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) (BZHP1-133429) (2010/2011)

Prize for the best bar exam of the term in the Canton of Bern (2008)

Member of the CAS research group "The institutional architecture for a 1.5 °C world", funded by the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at the Lugwig-Maximilians-University in Munich 

Legal commentary project on "EU sustainable finance law" (to be published by Edward Elgar) (with Ann-Katrin Kaufhold)

Edited book project on "Central banking and sustainability" (to be published by Cambridge University Press) (with Kern Alexander)

Book project "Fundamentals of financial regulation" (to be published by Oxford University Press) (with Jens-Hinrich Binder, Veerle Colaert und Guido Ferrarini)

Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2023/2024)

Sustainable Finance Lab, the Netherlands (2021-2023 as member, since 2024 as associate)

Academic Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on European Union Sustainable Finance and Law (EUSFiL) (since 2020)

University Research Priority Programme Financial market regulation, University of Zurich (2014-2020 as member, since 2020 as a research associate)