DrMina Hosseini

Dr Mina Hosseini is an experienced researcher, lecturer, Marie Skłodowska-Curie alumna, lawyer, consultant and mentor with research interests in Health Law, Competition Law, Pharmaceutical Policy, and AI in Healthcare. She holds a PhD in Competition Law, an LLM in Economic Law from Beheshti University (Tehran), an LLB in Law from Shiraz University, and a Level 6 Project Management Certificate (with Distinction) from QQI Ireland.

As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UCD Sutherland School of Law (2022–2024), Dr Hosseini led COMPHACRISIS, a project examining EU competition law enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently an occasional lecturer at UCD Sutherland School of Law.

Dr Hosseini’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Cambridge University Press), Competition Policy International and Irish Studies in International Affairs. Her interdisciplinary and comparative work was recognised with the National Student Book of the Year Award for her 2019 monograph on Comparative Competition Law.

She has been invited to deliver guest lectures and talks at numerous universities and academic institutions, including the University of Málaga, the French Society of Comparative Legislation, the Technical University of Dresden, Queen’s University Belfast, Maynooth University, the University of Bologna, Boston College Law School, the Brazilian Institute of Competition and Innovation, University College Dublin and Fordham University.

Dr Hosseini is a mentor for the Legal Mentorship Programme (LegaMart) and an MSCA mentor. She provides strategic guidance on MSCA proposals and research funding and has delivered workshops on grant writing at UCD and Marie Curie Ireland events.

Before joining UCD, she held academic positions as Assistant Professor and Lecturer at Tehran University of Science and Culture (2018–2022), as Consultant and Researcher at the Niroo Research Institute in Tehran (2014–2018), and as Attorney at Law at the Iranian Central Bar (2008–2020).

She is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), the Dublin European Institute, the UCD Discovery AI Healthcare Hub, the UCD One Health Centre, and the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA).