Jian Jiang is a Research Fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. He specializes in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and economics, with a particular focus on applying economic models to legal analysis. His current research focuses on the legal and economic dimensions of artificial intelligence and cyberwarfare, addressing issues in cyberlaw, tort law, competition law, and financial regulation.

Jiang’s research experience also extends to competition policy and regulatory issues in network industries. He has contributed to projects on the effects of asymmetric regulation on telecommunications infrastructure investment (University of Bonn) and on state regulation in the natural gas industry (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg).

Jiang holds a PhD in Law, jointly awarded by Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Haifa, and University of Hamburg, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna. His doctoral research examined software vulnerabilities and cyberattacks, analyzing how legal and regulatory frameworks shape the incentives of freelance hackers and his dissertation was awarded summa cum laude.

Before entering academia, Jiang gained extensive professional experience. He worked as a business analyst at Siemens in Erlangen, served as Regional Manager for China Mobile in Shanghai, and was the Chief Marketing Officer of a technology start-up in Shenzhen.

In addition to his position at the Minerva Centre, Jiang is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Chinese Business Studies at Fudan University and a Guest Researcher at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University.