Marie-Therese Sekwenz is a PhD candidate at TU Delft’s Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, where she serves as Deputy Director of the AI Futures Lab on Rights and Justice. An expert on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and European platform regulation, her research examines the evolving landscape of content moderation, algorithmic governance, and regulatory compliance in digital environments. As part of the AI Futures Lab, she addresses pressing questions at the intersection of rights, justice, and new technologies, and has contributed to interdisciplinary projects at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin about the EU's Digital Decade.

Marie-Therese has authored and co-authored several academic publications and reports on DSA implementation, systemic risk assessment, and the design of socio-technical and legal frameworks for online platforms.

In addition to her academic work, she is active as a journalist for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), producing features for programs such as ‘Diagonal’ and ‘Radiokolleg’.

She previously worked on research projects at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans-Bredow-Institute (HBI) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she studied business law, information systems, and economics.