PROFILE SUMMARY

I am an accomplished legal scholar and interdisciplinary researcher specializing in AI ethics, data governance, and privacy law. I graduated from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Languages, Law and Economics (2001–2006), obtaining a merit scholarship in my first year, and from the University of Padua’s Law School (2007–2012). In 2015, I passed the bar exam and was admitted as an attorney in Italy, and in 2021 I passed the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ exam, becoming a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).

I also hold a Ph.D. in East Asian and African Studies from Ca’ Foscari University (2013–2017), where my dissertation focused on private international law, critical theories, and legal translation. During this period, I was awarded four scholarships (a fully funded Ph.D. scholarship, Best Research Work award, an overseas grant, and a travel grant). I have held prestigious visiting research positions at RCAST – University of Tokyo, Keio University, the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Vanderbilt University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of Milan.

After completing my Ph.D., I worked as a privacy attorney and consultant in Milan, deepening my expertise in data protection, as well as a banking and financial law attorney, where I managed a portfolio of approximately 200 high-profile cases, many valued in the millions of euros, thereby further consolidating my experience in handling complex and significant financial matters.

After a two-year maternity leave, I was hired by Eindhoven University of Technology in 2021 within the Research Data Management team. In this role, I was responsible for ensuring privacy and legal compliance within various research projects and clinical trials at the Eindhoven MedTech Center. Upon returning to Italy in 2022, I first obtained a scholarship at the University of Turin to work on an MSCA proposal, and I later joined the University of Trieste’s Department of Mathematics within the Uni4Justice project, where my research focused on the digitalization of Italian courts, including interviews, anonymization of judgments, legal ontologies, and work on legal topic modelling.

My academic career received a significant boost through a prestigious MSCA fellowship awarded in 2023, which enabled me to further consolidate my standing as a scholar in data protection law and AI ethics. This experience allowed me to build upon insights gained throughout my career and facilitated the exploration of new research methodologies, including interviews, surveys, and focus groups. At the same time, it provided me with the opportunity to develop my research agenda in new directions in the area of health data law and ethics.

In 2024, I joined the working groups of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice and the AI Transparency Code of Practice established by the AI Office within the European Commission, participating in the drafting process.

In 2025, I joined the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society at Tilburg University to coordinate a four-year project on EU Data Spaces, exploring the policy and legal framework created by the EU in relation to the reuse of sectoral data, with the aim of guiding the Department’s research agenda in this field. I was also appointed Adjunct Professor in the course of Digital Ethics at Ca’ Foscari University’s Collegio Internazionale.

I am an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, an Area Editor for Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press), an International Editor of the Journal of Digital Technologies and Law, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Genius. In 2022, I received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE CIBCB conference for a paper on the ethics of data reuse.

I am a member of the IEEE technical committees on education in ethics and on the legal aspects of Artificial Intelligence.