Designation: Fellow 2022/2023

Jacopo Ciani Sciolla

He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Turin (2011), holds a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from ITC-ILO (2011) and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Milan (2016). He has been visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany) and at the KU Leuven Center for IT & IP Law (Belgium). 

He is author of a monography on “The Public Domain in the Knowledge Society” and of several articles in leading national and international journals. His main research field is intellectual property law in the digital environment, with a particular interest in issues related to data governance, AI authorship, digitization and access to knowledge. Since 2020, Mr. Ciani has been appointed Assistant Editor of Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property, edited by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Sandra Cassotta

Associate Professor in International, Environmental and Energy Law, Aalborg University.

Non-resident Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm.

She was appointed Lead Author on Environmental Governance and Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic) at the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) United Nations. She is specialized in environmental damage and liability problems in a multilevel context. Her expertise is on environmental regime effectiveness in a multi-level governance perspective. Included in her areas of interests are human rights, law of the sea (UNCLOS), and environmental security (particularly that of the Arctic Ocean), Energy Security and Geopolitics. Though a legal scholar, her approach is interdisciplinary, combining law with international relations, economics, and elements of (climate) environmental science. Sandra is also Adjunt Professor of Law, School of Law, Western Sydney University (Sydney, Australia), Fellow at the Sustainability College Bruges – SCB (Belgium), Expert Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, ISDP working on the Sino-Arctic Research Programme (Stockholm, Sweden), Member of the Governamental Panel of Assessemnt for the Academy of Finland for Governamental Projects on Environmental Law and Economcis and Expert at the European Commission (DG Clima Adaptation) and the European Parliament.

Dr. Cassotta was born and raised in Brussels. She holds a B.A. in language from the European School of Brussels (Uccle), an M.S. in political science from the State University of Milan (Italy), and Ph.D. in international environmental law from Aarhus University (Denmark). She worked for 14 years in the private and public sectors, and worked as media press and information officer at the International Olive Oil Council (United Nations aegis) for several years in Madrid (Spain), writing press releases, session reports of intergovernmental meetings, and official briefings for the executive director.

Danielle Borges

Danielle Borges is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute (EUI).

She holds a PhD in Law and a master’s degree in International, Comparative and European Law from the EUI. She also holds a master’s degree in Public Health from the Brazilian School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ).

In the last 15 years, she has undertaken research in the areas of human rights, data protection, regulation of essential services, consumer and comparative law in the European Union and in South America. Her publications include peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and a monograph entitled “EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice Towards New Paradigms for the Provision of Health Care Services?” (Routledge, 2016).

Besides her academic life, Danielle is a lawyer admitted to practice law in Brazil and Portugal and a member of the International Law Association (ILA).

Beatrice Bonami

Beatrice Bonami holds a Ph.D. in the field of Education, Innovation and International Development by the University of São Paulo [Brazil] in co-fellowship with the University College London [United Kingdom]. Since 2019 she has been working in COVID-19 task forces in collaboration with UNESCO and the WHO. She is Head of Education at Vero Institute and Teaching Fellow at Universität Tübingen, holding a project about Tech Decolonization.

Disciplines: International Relations, Applied Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Information Technology and Politics, Educational Technology, Educational Policy

Taís Fernanda Blauth

Taís Fernanda Blauth, is a PhD Researcher in the programme “Artificial Intelligence & International Relations”, in the Department of Governance and Innovation at the Campus Fryslân – University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. She is also a member of the interdisciplinary Data Research Centre where she is involved in the project ‘Enhancing Higher Education Capacity for an Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Study Program’. She is a Fellow in the Evolving Digital Society research group at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), in Germany.

In her doctoral research, Taís is focused on AI governance, AI ethics, military innovation, and arms control.

She holds a MA in Politics and International Relations – Political Theory (distinction) from Durham University, United Kingdom and an LL.B. degree from Universidade Feevale, Brazil.

Throughout the past years, Taís Fernanda Blauth has continuously worked on the intersection between technology and society. Her research interests include topics such as the intersection of policy, information technology, government, and the public; governance and regulation of digital technologies; and ethical issues of digital technologies.

Jeremy Bernius

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Sharon Bassan

Sharon Bassan is currently the Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property at DePaul University, after two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University Center for Human Values (UCHV), Princeton University. She is a legal scholar with expertise in (bio)ethics, health policy, innovation, and information technology law and ethics.

The common thread running through her scholarship, teaching, and service is emerging technologies and the ethical and regulatory challenges they raise. In particular, her research focuses on the regulation of innovative technologies, such as data mining, Big Data, and intelligent systems, among others. 

Ucha Avsajanishvili

Ucha Avsajanishvili is a Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute.

Ucha works as an Associate at the leading Georgian law firm – BGI Legal. His primary practice areas include legal research, human rights, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering law.

In 2014-2021 Ucha worked as a Senior Legal Advisor (Research and Analysis) at the Analytical department of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. His areas of expertise covered legal research and drafting, cybersecurity, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering policy.

In 2017 Ucha served as a Legal Consultant for the Council of Europe’s European Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ), advising the General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan on development of anti-corruption and criminal justice policy.

His professional experience also includes working as a Legal researcher at Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia), where he taught legal research methods to LL.B. students and supervised legal research.

Ucha holds a Master’s degree (LL.M.) in European Economic Law from Stockholm University (Sweden) and a Bachelor’s degree (LL.B.) in Law from Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia).

Eleni Katopodi

Eleni’s PhD degree on the topic of “Blockchain Antitrust”.

Eleni is also a lawyer admitted to the Athens Bar Association.

She conducts research in various fields, especially in EU Competition Law, Blockchain antitrust, State Aid Law, European Law, Maritime law, IT Law, Law of Cryptocurrencies, International Economic Law.

 

Farzaneh Badiei

Farzaneh Badiei is the founder of Digital Medusa, a tech governance research firm.

Prior to that, she was the Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative at Yale Law School. Between 2017 and 2019, she served as the Executive Director of Internet Governance Project, Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. from the Universität Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics.

Badiei’s current research interests revolve around Internet infrastructure, Social Media Governance, Internet and sanctions, as well as cybersecurity and international digital trade.