Jens Woelk is Associate Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento (Italy).  Since 1994 he has been  the Vice-Head of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at the European Academy  in Bolzano (Italy).

His research fields are comparative federalism, constitutional law of the EU, legal management of diversity and constitutional transformation in South-Eastern Europe.

Mr Woelk is a Member of the Group of Independent Experts for the Congress  of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. This Group brings together competent experts in legal, political or financial fields, who are specialised in issues on local and regional democracy and provides legal assistance to the Congress within its political mission.