Olia is Assistant Professor of European Economic Law and Technology at Utrecht University and researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher and Senior Research Affiliate at Center for IT and IP Law (CiTiP) at KU Leuven, an Emile Noël postdoctoral fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at the New York University School of Law, and worked as a researcher and lecturer at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). As of 2022, she is also a Vice-president of the European Academy for Standardisation.

Olia holds an a PhD in Law, an LL.M in International and European Public Law (cum laude) and an LL.B In International law from Tilburg University. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School (November 2022-January 2023), a visiting fellow at the Northwestern University Center on Law, Business and Economics of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2019) and a visiting researcher at the Chair of Innovation Economics, TU Berlin (2017). Before joining academia, Olia worked in the fields of export controls, technical standards and European law in a multinational company and interned at EU agencies and the Trade and Environment Division of the WTO.

Olia’s work was published, among others, in the Journal of Economic Law, Journal of World Trade, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal and European Competition Journal, as well as several edited book volumes. Her PhD monograph, “The Law and Practice of Global ICT Standardization,” is published with Cambridge University Press. Together with Professors Palka and Brozek (Jagiellonian University), Olia co-edited the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Technology.

Olia's research and teaching interests revolve around international and European economic law, trade with disputed and occupied territories and institutions of global governance. In particular, she is interested in regulation by non-State actors in highly specialized technology sectors as well as technical customs rules for imports of products made in disputed regimes.