Linda Weigl is a tech policy scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law. She is also a member of the University of Amsterdam's Trust Research Priority Area (Trust RPA) and a lecturer and course coordinator in the Advanced LL.M. in Technology Governance. Her research covers the governance of digital technologies, with a focus on the political economy of trust, risk, and power in digital platforms and identity systems.

Linda has a background in Political Science (Universitá degli Studi di Milano) and European Public Policy (Maastricht University). Coinciding with the revision of the EU’s electronic identification and authentication regulation (eIDAS), her doctoral research focused on digital identity management and self-sovereign identity (SSI) systems. Specifically, she explored how governments and technology providers adopt these systems, and the implications for user autonomy and trust.

Her research has since expanded to broader questions of technology governance within the EU regulatory landscape, in particular platform governance. Alongside the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), she analyzes platform self-governance through their Trust and Safety (T&S) departments. Her work focuses on accountability gaps and power asymmetries within these frameworks, particularly where they may undermine trust or enable abuses of power.