Since November 2020, Leo Leitzinger has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Industrial Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.

He studied economics at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Toronto. Prior to his employment as a research assistant, he has already worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Industrial Economics and at the Leibniz Institute SAFE. Leo Leitzinger also studied philosophy in Freiburg, at ÉNS Lyon and in Frankfurt.

His research interests are in the fields of intellectual property, innovation research and corporate finance.