CHIARA GALLESE  

Curriculum vitae  

CONTACT INFORMATION  

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiaragallesephd/  

INSTITUTIONAL WEBPAGE: https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/chiara-gallese-nobile

PERSONAL WEBSITE: www.aiandlaw.eu

EMAIL: chiara.gallese(at)unito.it

 PROFILE SUMMARY

I am a scholar working at the intersection between Law, Ethics and new technologies. I have been highly successful in publishing in leading academic journals and disseminating them to broader audiences. My doctoral research was highly interdisciplinary, bridging Private International Law and translation, in a critical perspective, and was conducted at Ca’ Foscari University’s Department of Asian Studies. During my last year of the PhD, puzzled by the social consequences of new technologies on privacy and other fundamental rights, which I explored while researching on Japan’s robot regulations as part of my studies for the dissertation, I started to research on the Law & Technology and Privacy field. After my PhD, I worked as a Privacy attorney & consultant in Milan, deepening my knowledge of the subject. After 2 years of maternity leave in The Netherlands, I successfully applied to Eindhoven University of Technology, working as first line for privacy and legal compliance of research projects. Recently, I explored the impact of the forthcoming AI regulation in industry and in research, and I organized the conference ‘‘Automated decision making, AI systems and fundamental rights’’ that addresses the challenges of automated decision making systems. In my latest research project, I explored the application of the AI Act proposal and ethical principles in practice, tackling the issues of bias in data and AI governance practices. I co-authored two papers on the legal issues of computational intelligence together with computer scientists and I helped them to develop predictive models, e.g., to build automatic reasoning tools in the Judicial field, and to achieve trustworthy AI models. A MSCA fellowship allowed me to continue strengthening my profile as a Privacy scholar and to build upon the insights gained during my career regarding the challenges and opportunities created by the use of health data. At the same time, it gaveme the opportunity to develop my research agenda in new directions, particularly concerning Data Ethics. Working under Prof. Pagallo’s supervision, being integrated in the University of Turin’s outstanding academic community, and participating in the University’s career advancement courses has been extremely helpful to train me towards achieving my goal of becoming a tenured academic and establishing my own research group.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2025 Member of the AI Ethics Oversight Working Group – P7999™ Series
IEEE Standards Association

2024 Member of the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

24/09/2024 Member of the GPAI Code of Practice Working Group, EU AI Office, European Commission

08/02/2024 Member of the doctoral committee of the thesis defense of Dr. Devika Medina Perez, University of Cadiz, Jerez Campus, Spain

01/05/2023 Multistakeholder Advisory Board member in the REALM Horizon project Grant Agreement no: 101095435

01/05/2022 – 30/09/2022 Member of the Ethical Review Board for the project “Green Learning”, a collaboration between the NGO Sineglossa and the Marche University of Technology
https://www.sineglossa.it/2022/05/13/greenlearning /

01/05/2021 – 12/02/2022 Member of the Regulatory Board, e/MTIC Research Center, Eindhoven University of Technology

01/11/2014 -01/11/2016 Representative of doctoral students, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

02/04/2025 Invited lectures on Generative AI (4h), “Artificial Intelligence” course, LLM in Law of Internet Technology, Bocconi University, Milan

01/03/2025 – 20/03/2025 Invited Lectures on Artificial Intelligence Law in health care (7h), HSE University, Russia

24/02/2025 LECTURER Health Data Anonymization Law, UPC, Barcelona, Spain

05/12/2024 Invited lecture on Generative AI (3h), Recht en artificiële intelligentie, KU Leuven

20/04/2023 LECTURER “Legal aspects of Computer Systems in the Justice field” at Trieste’s Court of first instance and Court of Appeal

08/05/2023 Invited lecturer “AI Ethics and Auditing” in the course Abilità di inglese giuridico – corso di laurea in Diritto e Tecnologia, University of Padua (2022 and 2023)

15/12/2022 and 18/11/2021 Invited Lecturer – E-Tourism Bachelor’s Degree, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Lectures about Data Protection

07/10/2022 LECTURER – Teaching at the Dig4Asp Training school about privacy, Data Ethics and AI & Law
April 2022 Invited seminars (6h) “Data collection for machine learning” in the Deep Learning course, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, India

17/01/2022 LECTURER – designed and implemented the webinar Software Licenses, Eindhoven University of Technology

07/07/2021 LECTURER – designed and implemented the webinar Data Protection in Education, Eindhoven University of Technology – The webinar is aimed at helping researchers and professors with students’ personal data.

16/06/2021 LECTURER- designed and implemented the webinar GDPR in Research https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/17-06-2021gdprinresearch/ Eindhoven University of Technology – The webinar is aimed at helping students, researchers and professors to understand data protection laws and to learn how to correctly handling personal data in their research (e.g., biobanks, secondary research, IoT, autonomous cars, clinical trials, medical images for machine learning training)

2021 LECTURER – designed and implemented the course European Data Protection – Course for PhD students and Researchers, Eindhoven University of Technology -Teaching methods: preregistered modules, self-assessment tests, live webinars, workshops, sessions on how to write contracts and privacy notices.

2021 LECTURER – designed and implemented the webinar Copyright Law – Webinar, Eindhoven University of Technology – Basic copyright principles (Auteurswet, EU Copyright Directive)

2021 LECTURER – designed and implemented the course Basic Dutch Civil Law – Course for staff, Eindhoven University of Technology – Basic Dutch civil law principles, contract law, sources of law

2020 – 2023 LECTURER – Designed and implemented the course with two other colleagues Law For Engineering – Master’s course, School of Engineering, Carlo Cattaneo University LIUC (Varese, Italy)
https://my.liuc.it/english/corsoEN.asp?CM=N91468_2020
Teaching methods: prerecorded videos, live lessons online, debating in teams.

May 2017 TEACHING ASSISTANT at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) – Assistant to prof. Hiroko Kudo’s course of Public Administration about the risks of new technologies to people’s rights. I lectured about Law, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics.

2014 – 2015 TUTOR/LECTURER (150 H) Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, Italy) – Responsibilities: assistance to MA thesis students in both fields of Economy and Law. Japanese teaching to both BA and MA students.

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

2024 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
MIT on EDx

2017 Doctoral Course “Privacy and processing of Personal Data. Technical and legal aspects”, Department of Computer Science and Department of Law Milano-Bicocca University (Milan, Italy)
Acquired knowledge of the following subjects: Introduction to IT Security – CyberSecurity and InfoSecurity; Protecting data: the role of cryptography; Storage and processing of large amounts of data (Big Data); Knowledge extraction from Big Data; Privacy and personal data, between ethics and law; Processing big data correctly from a legal point of view; Functioning and operating procedures of the Ethics Committee.

2013 – 2017 Ph.D. in Asian Studies, Department of Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Dissertation: The reform of private international law in Japan – Supervisor: Prof. Fabrizio Marrella

Acquired knowledge in law, critical studies, orientalism

2007 – 2012 Law School degree. (5 years), University of Padua (Padua, Italy)
Acquired advanced knowledge of Italian, European and International law.

2004 – 2006 Languages, Law and Economics of East Asia – Master’s Degree (2 years), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Acquired advanced knowledge of Japanese language, Culture, History and International Relations, Incoterms, International Contracts, Political Economy and Import-Export procedures

2001 – 2004 Languages, Law and Economics of East Asia – Bachelor’s Degree (3 years), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Acquired advanced knowledge of Chinese, English and French Language, Japanese language,
Culture, History, Literature, Law, Economics, and Philosophy of East Asia

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

2019 Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics – course by Microsoft on EDX

This course focused in three modules: Data, Ethics, and Law; Data, Individuals, and Society; Ethics and Law in Business Analytics; Artificial Intelligence and Future Opportunities. With this course I developed the necessary knowledge, skills and competence to effectively implement and manage an ethical framework regarding the relationship between Law and Data.

2018 Data Protection Officer course – Euroconference ANORC 80 hours course on GDPR

Acquired advanced knowledge of GDPR regulation. This course focused on the key aspects of GDPR that affect an organization and the associated risks and opportunities. It enabled me to comprehend the basic concepts and requirements of the GDPR, to learn the basic elements to implement and manage a compliance framework regarding the protection of personal data, enabled me to understand the fundamental privacy principles and become familiar with the role of the Data Protection Officer. With this course I developed the necessary knowledge, skills and competence to effectively implement and manage a compliance framework regarding the protection of personal data in Europe.

2016 – 2019 Mandatory courses about professional ethics and professional insurance
Bar Association
Acquired knowledge on Ethics and insurance

NON ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2019 – 2021 Maternity leave

2018 – 2019 Senior Privacy consultant and Attorney at PLS Legal law firm (Milan, Italy)

Helped major Italian multinational companies to comply with GDPR, improving and transforming business operations, functions, and processes according to the principles of minimization, traceability, dematerialization, and digitization. I conducted data protection activities, coordinating junior resources; supported the clients in assessing compliance to data privacy according to European and local regulations, identifying any gaps or areas of intervention; implemented required compliance intervention plans, in terms of both internal organization and IT systems; defined methodology and executed the Data Protection Impact Assessment; drafted all relevant documents (privacy policies, contracts, register of data controller, and records of processing activities of the data processor); designed and supported the execution of privacy law awareness training and educational activities. I also lectured my clients’ employees about privacy law and cyber security and helped the management team to set up the Data Breach Committee, constantly answering to their questions and solving privacy issues. Within my company, I was the one in charge to manage relationship with IT professionals. Coordinated a team of 3 junior resources.

2018 – 2019 Attorney at Balossi-Quaglia Law Firm (Lecco/Milano, Italy)

Helped the biggest Italian banks to win cases in the field of compound interests, usury, illegal interests, and mortgages. I managed the banking law litigation department within the office. In charge of c.a. 200 positions

2015 – 2017 Attorney at Gallese, Nardelotto, Gottardo, Brunazzetto Law Firm

Helped clients to solve issue on privacy and intellectual property breach; assisted clients on sale of software contracts; advised on IP address sale contracts; advised on Intellectual Property issues related to the publishing industry; advised and drafted Non-Disclosure Agreements.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

STUDENT SUPERVISION

2023-2024 Mentoring of MSCA postdoctoral fellowship candidates

2023 – 2024 Supervision of a PhD student in the Spider project

2021 – 2022 Supervision of a graduate researcher in the Saturdai project

2014 – 2015 Tutorship for Law, Economics, and Language dissertations

QUALIFICATIONS

MEMBERSHIPS (from)

LANGUAGES

Italian mother tongue 

Proficient in English, French and Japanese

Very basic knowledge of German, Spanish and Chinese

Study of Latin and Ancient Greek at high school level (5 years)

Currently studying Dutch (A1/A2)