Founder and CEO, Alplexio AG (2026–present, Switzerland). LegalTech: software for regulated professions. Portus — Swiss AMLA client onboarding: clears conflicts, determines whether a mandate falls under the AMLA at all, and produces a compliant onboarding file. Invenio — practice management: matters, documents, Swiss billing, payroll, IP-firm workflows. Source-available; self-hosted or Swiss-hosted, so client data stays in Switzerland.
European Patent Attorney — qualified after passing the European Qualifying Examination (EQE), March 2026.
Previous roles
Legal Employee, MLL Legal (2026, until September, Zug). Intellectual property law, FinTech and blockchain.
Patent Engineer, then Junior Associate (from 2025), IPrime Rentsch Kaelin (2022–2026, Switzerland). Prosecution and litigation of IP rights.
Research Software Engineer, ETH Zurich (2023–2026). Generative and discriminative AI: architected retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, custom LLM solutions and autonomous agentic systems.
Deep Learning Engineer, Arbrea Labs (2019–2020, Switzerland). AI algorithms for plastic-surgery applications.
Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018, USA). Thermo-hydraulics and nuclear engineering.
Legal education
MLaw, University of Basel (2025–2026). Focus on intellectual property law and agentic systems. Thesis: trade secrets and software protection in the era of agentic systems.
Dr. iur., University of Zurich (2024–2026), magna cum laude. Legal risk analysis of blockchain integration in banking institutions. Dissertation Blockchain Institutionalism: Regulatory Compliance in the Swiss and Global Banking Environment, supervised by Prof. Dr. iur. Rolf H. Weber and Prof. Dr. iur. Peter Nobel; in publication in the Schweizer Schriften zum Finanzmarktrecht.
LL.M. in Innovation, Technology and the Law, University of Edinburgh (2023–2025), with distinction.
BLaw, FernUni Schweiz (2021–2025), magna cum laude.
Technical education
Dr. sc. in Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich (2020–2023). Modelling manufacturing processes via machine learning.
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich (2018–2020). Bakala Foundation Scholarship winner.
Electrician (high-voltage), Prague Academy of Crafts (2015–2017). Passed with honours.
BSc in Theoretical Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (2014–2017).
Professional qualifications
European Patent Attorney
Languages
Czech (native)
English — IELTS 8/9
French — DALF C1
German — Goethe-Zertifikat C1
Italian — C1
Currently learning Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Russian.
Patent drafting and prosecution (EPO); patent litigation; intellectual property law; FinTech and financial-market regulation; blockchain and digital-asset regulation; anti-money laundering compliance; generative and discriminative AI; RAG pipelines and agentic systems; machine learning for manufacturing.
Research agenda
Planning a Habilitation on software protection in the age of agentic systems — how authorship, liability and enforceability in intellectual property law hold up when autonomous AI agents write, modify and deploy code.