Qian Li (Q.)

Qian Li is a postdoctoral researcher at the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab. Her academic journey has been shaped by a longstanding interest in how market power functions, how digital platforms build and exercise market power through data, algorithms, and ecosystem strategies, and how law—competition law in particular—responds to AI-driven practices.

She pursued this focus during her PhD at Maastricht University, where she examined AI-enabled price discrimination from a law and economics perspective. Building on this foundation, her current research explores how AI is reshaping market behaviour and regulatory challenges, with a growing emphasis on empirical and interdisciplinary methods. She is particularly interested in developing research that bridges doctrinal legal analysis with data-driven insights to better understand how competition law is applied and enforced in digital markets.

Her doctoral research on AI-enabled price discrimination has been published as a monograph, offering a comparative perspective on the EU and China. Her work has also appeared in journals such as GRUR International and Finance and Economics Law Review (《财经法学》), and she has been invited to present her research at a range of international conferences, including in Brussels, Beijing, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Toulouse.