Dr Joaquín Santuber is Univ. Assist. and Lead of the junior research group of the Metaverse Lab, LIFT-C. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Joaquín’s work addressed questions around design and governance of technology in public sector organizations, and the tensions between the regulative power of digital technologies and the traditional sources of regulation by the State.

He obtained a Ph.D. in Design in IT Systems and Technologies at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. His doctoral studies focused on designing for digital justice, studying innovation, law, and technologies in courts. As a postdoctoral researcher he worked on the topic of designing for posthuman legalities—human-nature-machine relations, digital identities, and spatiality at the Center for Advanced Design Studies, Palo Alto, USA in collaboration with the School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where he serves as Visiting Professor.

Joaquín has been Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, where he co-led the Design for Justice Lab and was part of the teaching team of a nation-wide AI training for judges and court officers.

While part of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, Joaquín published on the topic of design theory and methodology focused on new educational approaches. His research also extended to the field of health, as part of the HPI Digital Health Design Lab, Potsdam, Germany and the Neurodesign Research initiative at Stanford University.

Joaquín has been guest scholar at the Center for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal and the Humboldt’s Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany; and was also co-founder of This is Legal Design, Berlin. He holds a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and serves as a co-editor of the Legal Design Journal.