
Dr. Lisa Käde has been manager of RAILS since May 2022. She is a legal trainee at the local court of Karlsruhe and a legal scholar at the Center for Applied Legal Studies of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on copyright issues and questions of explainability of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence. She finished her PhD thesis (titled "Kreative Maschinen und Urheberrecht" - "Creative Machines and Copyright") in 2021. Moreover, she holds a B.Sc. in business informatics and has a passion for web development and legal tech. She is a member of the german chapter of Creative Commons and has been an active member of the Institute of Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS) for many years.