Susanne Augenhofer has been a full Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, since 2020. Prior to her appointment in Innsbruck, she was a Professor of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, as well as at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She served as a Visiting Professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) Guido Carli (spring 2025 and fall 2025), at Yale Law School (spring 2020 and fall 2024), at NYU School of Law (2018) and at Columbia Law School (2016). She currently is a fellow at the NYU Center on Civil Justice.

Augenhofer studied law at the University of Graz (Austria), the Università Statale di Milano (Italy) and the University of Vienna and conducted research as an academic visitor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany), the London School of Economics (United Kingdom) and as a Jean-Monnet-Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She was a Fulbright scholar at Yale Law School (United States of America, LL.M., 2003) and a Yale-Fox-Fellow at the Free University Berlin (Germany, LL.M., 2004).

She currently serves as a Co-Chair of the European Law Institute (ELI) Austrian Hub and has been a Council Member of the ELI since 2021 (re-elected 2025) and was a co-reporter of the ELI Principles on Third Party Litigation Funding which were adopted in 2024. She has advised the European Parliament and the European Commission on various issues regarding European fair trading as well as consumer law (including product liability) and its enforcement and, from 2021 till 2026 she served at the Advisory Group on Consumer Policy of the European Commission. Since 2025, Augenhofer has been a member of the Board of the newly established Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Verbraucherrecht (Scientific Association of Consumer Law).