Katia Fach Gómez is a tenured Lecturer (Profesora Titular, acreditada a Catedrática) of Private International Law at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She holds a European PhD in German and an LLM from Fordham University (NY-US).

She is the author of several legal books, book chapters and scholarly papers published in English, Spanish and German by renowned international publishers (i.e., Oxford University Press, Springer, Kluwer, Brill, Edward Elgar, Routledge, Aranzadi, Tirant lo Blanch, Colex).

She has worked two years as a seconded national expert for the European Union in Brussels and has managed the International Campus of Excellence Iberus at the University of Zaragoza. She has been designated by the Kingdom of Spain to the Panel of Conciliators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID- World Bank) (2020-2026) and acts regularly as external legal expert appointed by various international institutions and national research agencies.

Besides her academic career as a legal scholar, she has a background in journalism. She is strongly committed to outreach in the fields of social sciences and humanities, and regularly publishes opinion articles in media outlets such as Heraldo de Aragón, El Confidencial, The Conversation, Altaïr Magazine, Zenda and ZeroGrados.

Katia is the co-author of the children's book La Agente Palomitas y el misterio de los ajolotes (Agent Popcorn and the Mystery of the Axolotls) (Volteletras, 2023) and has won awards for her short stories. She has also written (with Catharine Titi) the non-fiction book Arte secuestrado. Los mármoles del Partenón, el penacho de Moctezuma y otras historias ocultas de nuestros museos (Abducted Art) published by Editorial Península/Planeta in 2026.