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Dr Mina Hosseini is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin (UCD). She holds a PhD in Competition Law from Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran. Prior to joining UCD, she worked as an assistant professor at Tehran University of Science and Culture (USC) from 2018-2022. During her time at USC, she taught courses in Contract Law, Competition Law, and Tort Law and served as the academic manager of "The USC Journal of Modern Technology Law". Mina has been a member of the Iranian Central Bar since 2008 and also worked as a researcher at Niroo Research Institute from 2014-2018, where she was involved in various projects related to electricity markets. In 2019, she won the National Student Book of the Year Award in the Law Category for her monograph on Comparative Competition Law. She has presented her research at national and international conferences and has published papers on multidisciplinary subjects. Mina has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to undertake the COMPHACRISIS project, which is supervised by Professor Imelda Maher. Her research focuses on the enforcement of EU competition law and policies in the pharmaceutical sector during normal, crisis, and post-crisis situations, with a specific focus on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.