Elisabeth Anna Lümkea Andersen graduated in law from the University of Freiburg in 2018. Already during her studies, she focused on public international law and the interrelations of science and law especially in the field of German and international patent law. From 2018 to 2022, she has been a legal researcher at the Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg. Her research focused on international and EU biotechnology law and its interactions with WTO law and CETA as well as public international law. For her PhD thesis which she realised as part of the CIBSS project, she especially focused on the regulation of genome editing techniques and its application to plants in EU law, WTO law and CETA, also examining the EU Commission's plans to adopt new regulations in this field.