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Team
Director
Prof. Lucilla Gatt
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Department of Law and Economics
Prof. Lucilla Gatt
Role: Academic coordinator/Project manager, Teacher, Senior Researcher.
Staff member included in the project budget.
Tasks: She will be the Leader of the Project management and coordination work package (WP 1 Leader). She will be the leader of the impact and dissemination work package WP 4, coordinating the dissemination activities. She will co-leader of the the teaching activities (WP3 co-Leader) and of the research work package WP 2, coordinating the research activities related to the development and sustainability of trustworthy AI in data ecosystems with particular regard to cyberjustice (details on the tasks below, sec 4.2.). She is the most suitable person to have this role on the basis of the following competencies and expertise:
Expertise: Full Professor of European Private Law, Comparative Law and New Technologies Law at Department of Law and Economics, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa (UNISOB, Italy) and Director of the Research Centre in European Private Law. She directs the open access diamond journal “European Journal of Privacy Law and Technologies” (EJPLT)
Her Main research and teaching areas of interest are European Private Law (contract and consumer law, trust law), New Technologies Law, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy Law, Digital Asset, Smart Mobility, Biotechnologies Law, Outer Space Law, Green Law, Animal Rights.
She is actually involved in Jean Monnet activities as holder of Jean Monnet Chair PROTECH (2019-2022) at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa and Member of the Teaching and Research Staff of the Jean Monnet Eugreenext Chair (Holder: Prof. I.A. Caggiano). She was also involved in several Jean Monnet activities at Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (now:Luigi Vanvitelli University). Relevant funded projects (institutional and private) in which he played important roles are: Project Manager of the European Project “Training Activities to Implement Data Protection Reform” (TAtoDPR) (REC-DATA-2016- 01. Project 769191, 2017 – 2019); Member of the Coordinating Team of the Project PROCULTHER-NET (UCPM-2021–
101047869); Coordinator of the Project “Privacy and the Internet of Things: a behavioral and legal approach”, financed by Microsoft Italia.
In addition to directing the EJPLT Scientific Journal, she founded the open access “ReCEPL Series on Innovation and Sustainability Law” to disseminate studies on new technologies and sustainability law, conducted by researchers working in multidisciplinary teams. She is Deputy of Familia Journal, and member of the Scientific Committee of several Journals.
In 2016 she started one of the first post-graduate training course in Data Protection Law and one of the first under-graduate course towards an ever-greater integration between law and technology, launching the “jurist of new technologies” specialization. She is Supervisor of more than 40 Italian and foreign PhD students in the field of technologies, artificial intelligence and law.
She is an Expert in Open Science and Open Data for the Ministry of University and Research and an Expert in Artificial Intelligence of the National Forensic Council. She held hearings at the Coordination Committee for the Italian Strategy on the use of artificial intelligence, established by the Italian Government
She has been Erasmus Professor at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Università della Svizzera Italiana–USI; University of Derby; Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne
She edited monographs about European Contract and Trust Law and is the author of several publications in Italian, English, French, German, which focus mainly on Privacy Law, European Law of Artificial Intelligence and New Technology Law, Self-driving cars, Social-media and Web Platforms law, Satellite Data Law.
She participated as Speaker/Author to engineering conferences such as MetroXraine 2022, 2023, 2024, in an interdisciplinary perspective, thus creating professional links with STEM researchers.
Languages: Italian, English, French, German.
Deputy Director
Prof. Ilaria A. Caggiano
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa,
Department of Law and Economics
Prof. Ilaria A. Caggiano
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor
Staff member included in the project budget.
Tasks: She will be the co-leader of the research work package WP 2 and the teaching work package 3, coordinating the research activities related to the development of sustainable and trustworthy AI in data ecosystems with particular regard to healthcare sector. She will also take part to the dissemination activities related to the results of the research related to that knowledge field. Her tasks also include delivering teaching and give advice on the project management (details on his tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make her the most suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: She is Full Professor of Private Law, and she teaches Private Law, and New Technologies Law (as co-holder) at the Department of Legal and Economic Sciences of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. She also is vice-director of the Research Centre of European Private Law (ReCEPL) and vice-director of “European Journal of Privacy Law and Technologies”.
Her main research and teaching areas of interest are European and Italian Privacy Law, Digital Law, European Contract and Consumer Law, Bio-law Law, European New Technologies Law, Green Private Law, Trust law, Digital Health Law.
She is currently Holder of the Erasmus + Project Jean Monnet Actions “European Green Rights: re-shaping fundamental rights for next generations” [EUGREENEXT] (Project 101047962) and has been Module leader of the Project PROTECH – Jean Monnet Chair in European Protection Law of Individuals in Relation to New Technologies at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. (Holder: Prof. L. Gatt).
She is actually Member of the Scientific Committee and of the Referee Board of various top class scientific Journals.
She is directing the LL.M – Master in Data Protection Officer and Privacy Law founded by the European commission at UNISOB and is Lecturer at LLM Management of Healthcare at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
She is an Expert on digital law for the Italian Minister of Health, and member of both the Technical Table for the Innovation and Digitalization of the Health Service and of the Technical Table for in-depth study of issues relating to medically assisted procreation (PMA). She is part of the Consortium JurAI – Working Group on Jurimetrics and Artificial Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board (AIAB) of CEPEJ.
She has been Visiting Professor in several Universities and Erasmus Visiting Professor at the University of Derby, at the Leibniz University of Hannover, at the Paris 1- Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago.
She participated as Speaker/Author to engineering conferences such as MetroXraine 2022, 2023, 2024, in an interdisciplinary perspective, thus creating professional links with STEM researchers
Author of four monographs and of several publications in Italian and English which focus mainly on Contract and Trust Law, Biotechnology Law, European Consumer Law, European Data Protection Law, Internet and New Technology Law and other subjects of Private Law
Languages: Italian, English, French.
Coordinator of the scientific secretariat and external relations
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Gaeta
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa,
Department of Law and Economics
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Gaeta
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor.
Tasks: She is co-leader of the research work package WP2, coordinating research activities related to the development and sustainability of trustworthy AI, with particular regard to the mobility sector. She is co-leader of the teaching work package WP3, coordinating and organising the empowerment focus areas. Her tasks also include delivering teaching, carrying out research activities, and giving advice on project management.
Expertise: Appointed Lecturer in Private Law and New Technology Law at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples, qualified as an associate professor, as well as Scientific Secretary and person in charge of international relations of the Research Centre in European Private Law (ReCEPL). She is coordinator of the editorial and referee board of the European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies (EJPLT) and a member of the editorial board of Familia Journal and Diritto dell’Internet Journal.
Her main research interests include the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence. Her current research focuses on smart and green transport.
She is a member of the teaching staff of the Jean Monnet Chair NextGEUOrder (European Order after the Next Generation EU – 2023-2025), has been Module Leader of the Jean Monnet Chair EUGREENEXT (European Green Rights: reshaping fundamental rights for next generations, 2022-2024), and a member of the teaching staff of the Jean Monnet Chair PROTECH (European Protection Law of Individuals in relation to New Technologies, 2019-2022) — all at Suor Orsola Benincasa University — as well as Junior Fellow of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence EURA (Regulation of Robotics & AI) at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
She has also been a member of several other European co-funded projects, including the REC project TAtoDPR (Training Activities to Implement Data Protection Reform, 2017-2019), and national projects such as Legal Design in Banking Law (LadiBank, 2020-2022) and Privacy, informazione e legal design (PRILeD, 2020).
She is a member of the Academy of European Private Lawyers (Naples Section), the High Observatory on European Policies (AOPE), and the Scientific Committee of the Interdepartmental Research Centre for Bioethics (CIRB).
Prof. Gaeta has been Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Salamanca (Spain, 2024); Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law of the Faculty of Law, Heidelberg University (Germany, 2022); Visiting Professor at the Interdisziplinäres Institut für Automatisierte Systeme e.V. (RifaS) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany, 2020); Research Associate at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS, 2019-2020), University of London (UK); Visiting Researcher both at Queen Mary University of London and at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of London (2017); and Visiting Scholar at the University of Ávila (Spain, 2013-2014).
She has participated in several national and international conferences as a speaker and has won numerous grants and scholarships, including within interdisciplinary research frameworks, such as the Best Paper by a Young Researcher Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE 2022), and the 2021 Law & Tech ECLT Prize for Technological Innovation, Artificial Intelligence and Law, awarded by the European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT), University of Pavia.
She is also Lecturer on several undergraduate courses and the LL.M. in Data Protection and the LL.M. in E-commerce, and on the Ph.D. course in Humanities and Technologies.
She has published two monographs, the first on tort law and autonomous vehicles, and the second on the measurment of the AI Impact on human rights; she is the author of several publications in Italian and English on European Technology Law, AI, Tort Law and Green Law..
She is a civil lawyer specialised in new technology law; a native Italian speaker and also speaks English (C1) and Spanish (C1).
JS Team
Prof. Giovanna Capilli
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Dirpolis Institute
Prof. Giovanna Capilli
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actor
Tasks: Her tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on cybersecurity of the AI applications. The following expertise and knowledge make her a suitable person to perform these tasks.
Expertise: Full Professor of Private Law and Director Coordinator of the Cybersecurity Observatory of Products (Rectoral Degree 3/2025) at San Raffaele University Rome; 2023-2024 Professor at the Lazio Cybersecurity Academy; PhD in European Private Law and Comparative Law;
Her main research and teaching areas of interest are European Private Law (contract and consumer law), New Technologies Law, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy Law, Digital Asset, Smart Mobility, Biotechnologies Law, Health Law, Civil Liability, Comparative Law.
Lead Professor of Private Law in the Degree Program in Administration and Organization Sciences. Lead Professor of Private Law in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the Degree Program in Administration and Organization Sciences. Lead Professor of Foundations of Private Health Law in the Degree Program in Administration and Organization Sciences, Health and Social Services Administration stream; Lead Professor of Sport Intelligence and Advanced Sports Law in the Degree Program in Business Management and Consulting, Sports Management stream; Lead Professor of Health Law and Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals in the Degree Program in Business Management and Consulting, Health and Technology Innovation stream; Lead Professor of E-Health: The Role of ICT in Health System Management in the Degree Program in Business Management and Consulting, Health and Technology Innovation stream. From 2016-2018 Member of the Board of the Department of the San Raffaele University Rome and also of the Senate Board. From 2018 up to now Co-Director of the Advanced Course in Cybersecurity: Policy, Regulation, and Technical Aspects, at San Raffaele University of Rome. Since 2011 – Associate Researcher on the Chair of Euro-American Legal Protection of Consumers, University of Cantabria Santander (Spain).
She is involved in Jean Monnet activities as a Member of the Teaching Staff and Scientific Committee for the Jean Monnet Module: European Law Perspectives on Innovation Challenges (Project ID: 21239-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-EPPJMO-Module, Prof. Battelli). October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2023; She also partecipated to the 2022 Advanced Lectures of the Jean Monnet Chair Eugreenext (Prof.ssa Caggiano) at Università Suor Orsola Benincasa.
She is involved in numerous national and international funded research groups and projects related to these research areas. She has also carried out research and teaching activities within the framework of ERASMUS initiatives, with which she has built up an international network of academic relationships.
Prof. Marco Giacalone
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Law
Prof. Marco Giacalone
Role: Expert, Teacher, Research Professor, Senior Researcher and Senior Advisor.
Tasks: Prof. Giacalone contributes to teaching, research and dissemination activities concerning artificial intelligence, digitalisation and the transformation of legal and judicial systems. His expertise and extensive experience in interdisciplinary and EU-funded research make him particularly well suited to perform these tasks.
Expertise: Prof. Giacalone’s research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) focuses on digitalisation and access to justice, artificial intelligence and law, digital justice, and technology-supported dispute resolution. Within the Department of Private and Economic Law (PREC), he is Research Professor and Co-Director of the Digitalisation and Access to Justice (DIKE) Research Group, together with Prof. Jachin Van Doninck. The group brings together more than 20 researchers working at the intersection of law, technology and access to justice. Prof. Giacalone also supervises and supports the research of postdoctoral researchers and PhD candidates in these fields.
Since his first EU project in 2013, Prof. Giacalone has developed an extensive interdisciplinary network of academic researchers, judicial actors, public authorities, legal professionals and technology experts across Europe and beyond. He has been involved in 17 European and international research projects, several of which are currently ongoing, with responsibilities ranging from scientific coordination and project management to methodological design, stakeholder engagement, pilot implementation and dissemination.
He has also served as a Programme Committee member for two of the leading international interdisciplinary conferences in Law and Technology: the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) and the International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX).
Prof. Giacalone is a Council Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) and is actively involved in its work on the digital transformation of justice. Within ELI activities, he has contributed to and coordinated work concerning Access to Justice and Digitalisation, as well as Online Dispute Resolution, Privacy and Personal Data Protection.
His record of successful participation in European and international research initiatives, together with the development of the DIKE Research Group, reflects a long-term research agenda centred on the interaction between private law, private international law, access to justice and emerging technologies, with particular emphasis on the ongoing digitalisation of justice.
Prof. Vincenzo Ricciuto
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Prof. Vincenzo Ricciuto
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: His tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on personal and non-personal data (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make him suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Prof. Ricciuto is Full Professor of Civil Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and an expert in the classic topics of civil law (contract law, personal rights, information law, etc.).
In recent years, he has focused on the study of civil law in relation to new technological phenomena, with particular expertise in privacy, personal data protection and artificial intelligence.
He is a former coordinator of the doctoral programme at the University of Sassari and a member of the Faculty Board of the PhD programme at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He also has teaching experience at the advanced training institutes of the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza, which train the future officers of these two Armed Forces.
In his academic career, he has held various editorial roles, mainly in management positions, for scientific journals and publishing series.
He was also a visiting professor at the University of Barcelona.
He is a lawyer qualified to practise before the higher courts.
He served as a member of the Authority for the Supervision of Public Contracts (an independent authority) and of the Superior Council of Public Works.
He was a member of the examining board for the 2011 national competition for judges, and has chaired numerous committees for university professorship appointments.
Prof. Carla Solinas
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Prof. Carla Solinas
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: She tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on sustainability and new technologies law (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make her suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: she teaches Privacy Law and Personal Data Protection and Private law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. At the same university, she teaches Communications Law at the Department of Mathematics degree course and Institutions of Private Law at the Digital Humanities degree course. Her research interests include contract law, market regulation, regulation of new technologies, energy law, data law and artificial intelligence. Professor Solinas has gained significant experience in the area of privacy, including assisting Italian institutions and professional associations of data owners before the Italian Data Protection Authority.
She is a lawyer, qualified to practice before the higher courts, and is a member of the Rome Bar Association – List of University professors.
She is Associate Professor of Private Law in the Department of Law at Roma Tor Vergata University. She holds the national qualification as a Full Professor of Private Law.
She holds a Ph.D in ‘market and consumer’ (University of Roma Tre). Her doctoral thesis was awarded among the best doctoral theses on the subject of consumer law by the Lazio Region in 2013.
She has taught on the topics of market, data and new technologies at the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Dret. She has lectured in numerous Masters and PhD courses. She is the supervisor of dissertations on the topics of new technologies and private law.
She teaches in the PhD course in ‘Law and Protection: Contemporary Experience, Comparison, Legal-Romanistic System’, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.
Member of the Teaching Board of the PhD course in Law and Protection: Contemporary Experience, Comparison, Legal- Romanistic System, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.
She is a member of the Italian Society of Scholars of Civil Law -Sisdic, Società Italiana degli Studiosi di Diritto Civile– and of the Association of Italian Civil Law Scholars – Associazione Civilisti Italiani.
In 2022, she received the ‘Fare ricerca’ award from the Lazio Region co-financed by the European Union.
She has been a speaker at numerous national and international conferences on the topics of private law, market regulation, artificial intelligence, data and new technologies.
She is a member of scientific and editorial committees and acts as a referee for scientific journals and series.
She is the author and editor of books and academic essays on contract law, regulatory law, data protection, new technologies, energy and civil liability.
Dr. Anna Anita Mollo
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
Department of Law and Economics
Dr. Anna Anita Mollo
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher. Key actor.
Tasks: Her tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make her a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Prof. Anna Anita Mollo, with the National Scientific qualification as Associate Professor, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Private Law at Scuola Superiore Meridionale, University of Naples Federico II with a research project named Vulnerable Individuals, Technologies and Autonomy”.
At Scuola Superiore Meridionale she also hold a former postdoctoral research fellow named Disability and vulnerability in relation to New Technologies (DiVuTech) (2021-2024).
She held a PhD in Private Law at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples (Italy) on ‘Humanities and technologies: an integrated research path’ (2018).
Her main research areas of interest are in the field of Private Law, with specific reference to the impact of the technological development to the traditional legal institutions, especially with
reference to digital health, data protection, neurotechnologies (such as Brain Computer Interface) applied to vulnerable persons and AI, Inheritance Law.
She is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre of European private Law (ReCEPL) and member of the research group ‘Neuromarketing’, at Juridical Observatory of Digital Innovation_Jodi, Sapienza, Università di Roma.
Prof. Mollo is member of the International Neuroethics Society (INS), Società italiana di neuroetica (SinE), and member of Academy of European Private Lawyers (Neapolitan Section).
She has been Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA (2024) and Visiting Research Scholar at Law Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia (2024); Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad de Derecho Catedra de Derecho Registral y el curso Derecho Civil III (2021)
She participates in several national and international conferences as a speaker and won numerous grants and scholarships, also within the framework of interdisciplinary studies, such as the Poster Top Presentation The right to neural communication to express will in juridical acts: the case of Speech brain computer interfaces (BCIs), at Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Monaco di Baviera (2025); the Best paper presented by a young researcher of the IEEE International Workshop Metrology for extended reality, artificial intelligence, and neural engineering (MetroXRAINE 2022); the prize for the Best Book Eredità digitale e piattaforme online. Tutela e profili di pianificazione (2024).
She had been teaching staff member of the Erasmus + Project Jean Monnet Actions ‘European Green Rights: re-shaping fundamental rights for next generations’ [EUGREENEXT]
(Project 101047962), and she had been teaching staff member of the Erasmus + Project Jean Monnet Actions ‘European Protection Law of Individuals in Relation to New Technologies’
(PROTECH) (611876-EPP-1-2019-1-IT-EPPJMO-CHAIR); she had been also member of the research group of the European Project ‘Training Activities to Implement Data Protection Reform’
(TAtoDPR) (REC-DATA-2016-01. Project 769191), and of the national Project ‘Privacy and the Internet of Things: a behavioral and legal approach’, co-founded by Microsoft Italy.
She published two monographs on neurotechnologies and vulnerable people and regulation of digital platform in inheritance law; she is author of several publications in Italian and English on Green Law, Privacy, Vulnerable, Inheritance and Family law.
She is member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Privacy Law and Technologies, Familia and Diritto dell’Internet Journal.
She is civil Lawyer (since 2015). She speaks Italian and English.
She won grants in 2022 at EURA Young Scholar Prize (University Sant’Anna di Pisa) and IEEE International Workshop Metrology for extended reality, artificial intelligence, and neural engineering (MetroXRAINE).
She is civil Lawyer (since 2015).
She speaks Italian and English.
Dr. Livia Aulino
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa,
Department of Law and Economics
Dr. Livia Aulino
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher. Staff member included in the project budget.
Tasks: Her tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2).The following expertise and knowledge make her a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Livia Aulino is Ph.D. in Private Law with the recognition of the European Ph.D. Label at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples (Italy) on Humanities and Technologies. She is senior member of the Research Centre in European Private Law (ReCEPL) and a member of the Interdepartmental Research Centre ‘Scienza Nuova’ (Living Lab Utopia). She has also held a research period at national and foreign research centres.
She is a Researcher fellow in Private Law the University of Naples L’Orientale . She is lecturer at undergraduates and postgraduates courses at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and teaching assistant at chair of civil law, family law and new technologies law at the same University.
Her main research areas of interest include civil law and New Technologies Law, with regard to the legal design, Artificial Intelligence, autonomous vehicles, automation, data protection, family law. She wrote papers on these topics.
She is member of many European co-funded projects. In particular, she was teaching staff member of the Erasmus + Project Jean Monnet Actions ‘European Protection Law of Individuals in Relation to New Technologies’ (PROTECH) (611876-EPP-1-2019-
1-IT-EPPJMO- CHAIR). She also collaborated on the organization of seminars and lectures on New Technologies Law at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and attended many of these ones, both as an undergraduate student and Ph.D. candidate. She participates in several national and international conferences as a speaker, and she won numerous grants and scholarships.
She is the author of several publications in Italian and English on new technologies law, European Consumer Law and Family law. She is an Italian native speaker and speaks and writes English. She is a civil Lawyer with honours (since 2017).
Dr. Emiliano Troisi
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
Department of Law and Economics
Dr. Emiliano Troisi
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher. Staff member included in the project budget.
Tasks: His tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities (details on his tasks below, sec. 4.2).The following expertise and knowledge make him a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Emiliano Troisi holds a Ph.D. in Private Law (2019–2022), with the additional distinction of Doctor Europaeus, from Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. His doctoral programme focused on the interaction and integration between the humanities and advanced technologies.
He holds teaching and teaching-assistant appointments in the fields of Private Law and Law and New Technologies at Suor Orsola Benincasa University and LUISS Guido Carli University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ReCEPL4STAI.
During the 2024/2025 academic year, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Private Law at
Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. In the 2023/2024 academic year, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IISS in Naples. Since 2018, he has been affiliated with the Research Centre for European Private Law (ReCEPL), directed by Professor Lucilla Gatt, where he serves as a Senior Researcher. His main research
interests include data protection, law and new technologies, contract automation, digital health, environmental law (Green Law), and sustainability. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the academic journals EJPLT – European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies and Diritto di Internet. He is also a member of the JurAI Consortium’s Working Group on Jurimetrics and Artificial Intelligence, within the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board (AIAB) of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
He defended a doctoral dissertation entitled Automation and the New Semantic Boundaries of
Contract and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other scholarly contributions in his areas of research. He has also presented his work at numerous national and international academic conferences.
Dr. Irene Coppola
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
Department of Law and Economics
Dr. Irene Coppola
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher. Key actor.
Tasks: Her tasks consist of participating in research and dissemination activities (details on his tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make her a suitable person to perform these tasks.
Irene Coppola holds a PhD in Legal Sciences (Curriculum in Civil, Social and Economic Relations) from the University of Salerno. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples within the CREA 3 Project, and has previously been a Research Fellow on the ReSTART Project – Research and Innovation on Future Telecommunications Systems and Networks, to Make Italy More Smart, directed by Prof. Lucilla Gatt. She is also a member of the ReCEPL Research Centre, where she conducts research in the field of jurimetrics. She was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II (Department of Law), carrying out research on the project Organizational Models and Digital Innovation. The New Trial Office for the Efficiency of the Justice System (MOD-UPP). She has obtained the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the position of Associate Professor (Seconda Fascia) in IUS/01 – Private Law. Her main research and teaching interests include European and Italian Contract Law, Family and Succession Law, Law and New Technologies, Biotechnology Law, Civil Procedure, Cyberjustice, and the application of artificial intelligence and quantitative methods to legal research. She is co-inventor of the MetroDef software (Digital Metric Method for Endo-Family Damage Assessment), copyrighted in February 2024, together with Prof. Carmine Serio (University of Basilicata) and Prof. Lucilla Gatt (Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples). On 10 October 2023, she received the 40th Anniversary Medal from the Rector of the University of Basilicata in recognition of her interdisciplinary research activities. She is a Specialist Lawyer in Information Law, Digital Communication and Personal Data Protection, certified by the National Bar Council (Consiglio Nazionale Forense, Rome), and has extensive teaching experience at Italian and foreign universities, particularly in postgraduate and specialized programmes in the legal and judicial fields. Former Honorary Magistrate of the Italian Republic, she is the author of five monographs and numerous national and international publications in Italian, English and Spanish. Since May 2022, she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Internacionalización del Derecho (Editorial Thomson Reuters La Ley, University of Buenos Aires and Interamerican Open University, ISSN 2953-4143).
Dr. Davide Silvio D’Aloia
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
Department of Law and Economics
Dr. Davide Silvio D’Aloia
Role: Key staff member, Junior Researcher, Assistant. Key actor.
Tasks: His tasks consist of participating in research and dissemination activities and assist the project management activities under task leader guidance (details on his tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make him a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Davide Silvio D’Aloia since 2021 has been a PhD student in Humanities and Technologies: an integrated research path (legal profile), Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples.
He is Teaching assistant at the Chairs of Civil Law and New Technologies Law, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and junior researcher at ReCEPL (Research Centre of European Private Law). He is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies – Suor Orsola Benincasa Università Editrice – ISSN 2704-8012.
In these capacities, he has shown interest in various aspects of the relationship between law and new technologies, relating to civil law, contract law, including European and National Contracts and Consumer Law, Fintech, InsurTech and Data Trust.
His main research and teaching areas of interest include European and National Contracts and Consumer Law, New Technologies Law, Privacy Law. His doctoral research project concerns the process of digitization of assets, with specific regard to the study of the relationship between digital patrimonial assets and personal data with the trust as a possible legal instrument for their protection.
As a visiting Ph. D (c) student, he spent during November 2022 a research period at the Krakowska Akademia in Krakow, Poland, where he gave 4 lectures on smart contracts.
He is co-author of the article Gatt L., Gaeta M.C., D’Aloia D.S., InsurTech in Italy, in Szpyt K. (ed.), InsurTech. New technologies in the insurance sector, C.H. Beck., 2022 He is co-author of a paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality, AArtificial Intelligenceand Neural Engineering 2022, held at the CNR headquarters in Rome. The paper won the Best Paper on Service
Dr. Luigi Izzo
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
Department of Law and Economics
Dr. Luigi Izzo
Role: Key staff member, Junior Researcher, Assistant. Key actor.
Tasks: His tasks consist of participating in research and dissemination activities and assist the project management activities under task leader guidance (details on his tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make him a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: PhD in Humanities and Technologies: an integrated research path (legal profile), Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples.
He is Teaching assistant at the Chairs of Civil Law and New Technologies Law of the same University and Junior Researcher at ReCEPL (Research Centre of European Private Law). Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies. He has shown interest in various aspects of the relationship between law and new technologies, always taking into account European law profiles and specializing on the aerospace sector.
As part of his doctoral research project, he spent a period in contact with experts and staff from ESA, ESRIN (Frascati) and ESOC (Darmstadt), examining the European framework of the Copernicus programme and the new Regulation that founded EUSPA and launched the European space programs.
He has addressed several issues related to EO data processing during several conferences, especially during the latest IEEE MetroAeroSpace International Workshops as well as during the Techdefense 2024
International Workshop held in Naples.
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Prof. Pasquale Arpaia
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Prof. Pasquale Arpaia
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: His tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on medical engineering (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make him a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: he is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Napoli Federico II and Director of Interdepartmental Research Center on Management and Innovation in Healthcare – CIRMIS – Università di Napoli Federico II. He also currently holds the position of Scientific Advisor of the Framework Agreement between University of Naples Federico II and Accelerators Sector of CERN and coordinates several research activities within the same university. He has received several international IEEE and IMEKO awards for his research activities in the field of Brain Computer Interfaces.
Prof. Loredana Cristaldi
Polytechnic of Milan
Prof. Loredana Cristaldi
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: Her tasks include teaching activities and participation in research and dissemination activities related to the project (see Section 4.2). Her expertise in measurement science, reliability, monitoring and diagnostics, and data-driven methods makes her well suited to perform these tasks.
Expertise: Prof. Loredana Cristaldi is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements at Politecnico di Milano. Her research activities focus on measurement methods and systems for reliability assessment, monitoring, diagnostics and predictive maintenance of complex systems. Her expertise includes distributed measurement systems, measurement data processing, condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and data-driven approaches for the assessment of system health and degradation.
Her research has addressed the development of monitoring and diagnostic methodologies for a broad range of industrial and energy applications. In particular, she pioneered measurement-based diagnostic approaches exploiting electrical signatures, including the definition of synthetic indicators for the characterization of system operating conditions and methods for signature analysis and classification. These methodologies have been applied to electrical machines, switching devices, photovoltaic systems and other industrial systems.
More recently, her research has increasingly focused on data-driven and machine-learning approaches for reliability, diagnostics and prognostics, including battery State-of-Health and Remaining Useful Life estimation. Her activities combine measurement information with advanced data analysis to support condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and reliable decision-making. Her recent research includes machine-learning approaches for lithium-ion battery State-of-Health estimation.
Prof. Cristaldi was involved in Spoke 8 of the MICS Extended Partnership, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the NextGenerationEU programme, where her research focused on machine-learning models and measurement-based solutions for predictive maintenance, quality and energy-efficiency monitoring, and industrial process improvement. She is currently involved in REMICS, also funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, which builds on and further develops these research activities.
Prof. Christian Esposito
University of Salerno
Computer Science Department
Prof. Christian Esposito
| Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actors.
Tasks: His tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on Computer Engineering and Automation (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make him suitable person to perform these tasks: Expertise: Christian Esposito is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department (DI) of the University of Salerno from 2nd December 2022. He is co-author of more than 100 scientific articles published in international journals, international book chapters and international conference proceedings and co-editor of various volumes. She has been a member of the Program Committee of numerous international conferences and workshops. He has provided consultancy as a reviewer for various international journals, Guest Editor for various Special Issues and is associate editor of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) and IEEE Access. He has been involved as a participant and/or principal investigator for various research projects with national or international funding, collaborating with various academic and industrial partners on the issues of distributed systems, data modeling, dependability and infrastructure security, security requirements from legal obligations. |
Prof. Raffaele Montella
University of Naples Parthenope
Prof. Raffaele Montella
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Senior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: His tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on Computer Engineering and Automation (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make him suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Raffaele Montella is an Associate Professor with tenure in Computer Science at the Department of Science and Technologies (DiST), University of Naples “Parthenope” (UNP), Italy.
His main research topics and scientific production are focused on tools for high-performance computing, cloud computing, and GPUs with applications in the field of computational environmental science (multi-dimensional georeferenced big data, distributed computing for modeling, and scientific workflows and science gateways) leveraging on his experiences in embedded, mobile, wearable, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things.
He leads the design and development of GVirtuS (General purpose Virtualization Service), enabling CUDA kernel execution on mobile and embedded devices.
He leads a long-lasting research effort founded by the Regione Campania, Veterinary Sector, as research projects and scientific contracts to model Mytilus farming system with high-performance computing-based coupled simulations for mussel farms’ food quality prediction and assessment for human gastric disease mitigation. The methodology developed leverages numerical simulation and Artificial Intelligence technologies for mussel pollutant contamination predictions.
He is the Director of the High-Performance Scientific Computing Smart-Lab (HPSC-SmartLab), joining together theoretical and practical knowledge of scientists from computer science, scientific computing, applied mathematics, bioinformatics, and computational environmental science, taking the best from all those research fields to perform science and technology acceleration.
He is the Chief of Technical Operations (CTO) of the Center for Marine and Atmosphere Monitoring and Modeling (CMMMA), leading the design and management of the HPC infrastructure. In this context, he designed a methodology for coastal marine data gathering as crowd-sourcing for environmental protection, development, and management, leveraging a distributed leisure yachtcarried sensor network for atmosphere and marine data crowd-sourcing applications.
He teaches various computer science academic classes such as computing architectures, web technologies, and cloud computing, mainly, but not limited to, bachelor’s and master’s computer science degree courses.
He pioneered innovative teaching methodologies focusing on various forms of gamification in computer programming education.
He holds the Italian National Academic Qualifications as a Full Professor in Computer Science (01/B1).
Dr. Roberta Presta
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa,
Department of Humanities
Dr. Roberta Presta
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Junior Advisor – Key Actor
Expertise: Dr. Roberta Presta is a fixed-term researcher (RTD-a) at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, Italy, working in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human Factors Engineering (SSD: IINF-05/A). Her research focuses on the human-centred design, development, and evaluation of interactive and intelligent systems, with particular attention to human factors, safety, usability, user experience, and human interaction with AI-enabled and advanced technologies.
She has participated in and coordinated research activities within several European and national projects addressing human monitoring, intelligent and safety-critical systems, immersive technologies, and technology-enhanced cultural heritage.
Human Factors, Human Monitoring and Intelligent Systems
Roberta Presta’s research addresses the integration of human factors into the design and evaluation of complex socio-technical and safety-critical systems. Her expertise includes human behaviour analysis, user-centred design and evaluation methods, and the use of tools such as eye-tracking to investigate human interaction with technology, cognitive workload, attention, and potential interaction risks.
She is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the UNISOB research unit within the European DistriMuSe (Distributed Multi-sensor systems for Human Safety and Health) project (2024–2027), funded by the Chips Joint Undertaking. Within the project, she is Task Leader for activities concerning use-case definition, user and technical requirements, and human factors across use cases and pilots, as well as the leader of the related deliverables. Her research focuses particularly on human monitoring and human-machine interaction in the automotive and industrial robotics domains. This includes driver, passenger, and vulnerable road-user monitoring, as well as the human-centred design of interfaces for intelligent and robotic systems, with particular attention to transparency, understandability, cognitive workload, safety, and user acceptance. Previously, she was the principal member of the UNISOB research unit within the European NextPerception project (2020–2023), funded by the ECSEL Joint Undertaking. Her research addressed human-monitoring technologies for automotive applications, including the definition and validation of experimental protocols for investigating drivers’ mental states and the design and evaluation of interaction strategies aimed at encouraging safe driving behaviours. These activities combined behavioural approaches, nudging and gamification with experimental methods including eye-tracking.
uman-Centred Design, Immersive Technologies and Digital Cultural Heritage
Roberta Presta has extensive experience in the design, development, and evaluation of interactive and immersive systems, combining Human-Computer Interaction methodologies with research in immersive technologies and Digital Cultural Heritage.
She was a member of the UNISOB research unit in SPIRES (Sviluppo di una Piattaforma virtuale, Immersiva multisensoRiale integrata per prototipazionE e Simulazione) (2023–2025), a cascade-funded project within Spoke 1 of the Extended Partnership MICS – Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile. Her research focused on user requirements of immersive multisensory design environments, contributing to the definition and validation of use scenarios in the design of textile products, automotive HMI, and space-habitats, as well as to the evaluation of user experience and the effectiveness of immersive and multisensory technologies for digital prototyping and simulation.
She also contributed to CHANGES – Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Next-Gen Sustainable Society (2022–2025), within Spoke 4 – Virtual Technologies for Museums and Art Collections. Her activities focused on the development of state-of-the-art design guidelines for project demonstrators involving different types of virtual museums and virtual- and mixed-reality applications for cultural heritage. Since 2026, she has been responsible for the coordination of two Work Packages within the HERITAS project, addressing technologies for virtual museums through industrial research and experimental development activities.
Her research in Digital Humanities and cultural heritage also includes the design of digital archives, and technology-enhanced experiences for accessing and interpreting cultural heritage. Within the PRIN project Nea_Via – The Neapolitan Villa: Antiquities and Nature between Renaissance and Baroque (2023–2025), she contributed to the design and development of the project’s digital archive and to the development of an application supporting access to the cultural itineraries created within the project. From 2024 to 2025, she served as Scientific Coordinator of the UNISOB research unit within the European PROCULTHER-NET 2 (Protecting Cultural Heritage from the Consequences of Disasters – Network 2) project, funded under the Union Civil Protection Mechanism. She also served as Task Leader and Deliverable Leader for activities concerning the mapping of relevant European initiatives and the identification of potential synergies in disaster risk management and cultural heritage protection.
Challenge-Based Learning and App Development
As coordinator and mentor of the Apple Foundation Program @ UNISOB, Roberta Presta leads educational activities in mobile application development using Challenge-Based Learning, an educational approach centred on addressing real-world problems. The programme integrates technical competencies in user experience design, user interface design, and Swift programming with transversal skills including teamwork, project management, problem solving, and communication.
Drawing on her interdisciplinary experience, Roberta Presta plans and coordinates human-centred research and development activities, contributing to requirements definition, prototyping, and the evaluation of interactive and intelligent systems in collaboration with researchers, industrial partners, stakeholders, and end users.
Dr. Amira Rachah
SINTEF Industry Research Scientist
Dr. Amira Rachah
Role: Expert, Senior Researcher, Junior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: Her tasks consist of participating in research and dissemination activities on the engineering profiles of the AI applications in the selected case studies (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make her a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Dr. Amira Rachah is a Research Scientist at SINTEF Industry with expertise in modelling, optimization, data analysis, and artificial intelligence applied to healthcare, energy systems, and engineering processes. She currently leads the internal project “Safe and Ethical Data Sharing Framework and Lifecycle Management for Sensitive Information (SAFE-DATA)” and manages tasks in multiple European projects at SINTEF. Dr. Rachah has actively participated in various events and conferences related to autism and is involved in several ASD-related projects. Her research includes numerous scientific publications on applying AI to risk factors and biomarker-based diagnosis of ASD.
Prof. Gennaro Catone
University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa
Prof. Gennaro Catone
Role: Key staff member, Teacher, Senior Researcher. Staff member included in the project budget.
Tasks: His tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities (details on his tasks below, sec. 4.2).The following expertise and knowledge make him a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Emiliano Troisi holds a Ph.D. in Private Law (2019–2022), with the additional distinction of Doctor Europaeus, from Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. His doctoral programme focused on the interaction and integration between the humanities and advanced technologies.
He holds teaching and teaching-assistant appointments in the fields of Private Law and Law and New Technologies at Suor Orsola Benincasa University and LUISS Guido Carli University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ReCEPL4STAI.
During the 2024/2025 academic year, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Private Law at
Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. In the 2023/2024 academic year, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IISS in Naples. Since 2018, he has been affiliated with the Research Centre for European Private Law (ReCEPL), directed by Professor Lucilla Gatt, where he serves as a Senior Researcher. His main research
interests include data protection, law and new technologies, contract automation, digital health, environmental law (Green Law), and sustainability. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the academic journals EJPLT – European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies and Diritto di Internet. He is also a member of the JurAI Consortium’s Working Group on Jurimetrics and Artificial Intelligence, within the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board (AIAB) of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
He defended a doctoral dissertation entitled Automation and the New Semantic Boundaries of
Contract and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other scholarly contributions in his areas of research. He has also presented his work at numerous national and international academic conferences.
Prof. Martha J. Farah
University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Martha J. Farah
Role: Expert, Teacher, Senior Researcher, Junior Advisor. Key actor.
Tasks: her tasks consist of delivering teaching and participating in research and dissemination activities on the engineering profiles of the AI applications in data ecosystems (details on her tasks below, sec. 4.2). The following expertise and knowledge make her a suitable person to perform these tasks:
Expertise: Walter H. Annenberg Professor in Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Psychology (secondary appointments in Graduate School of Education and Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy), Founding Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience – Founding and current Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society.
She works on problems at the interface of neuroscience and society. These include the effects of childhood poverty on brain development, the expanding use of neuropsychiatric medications by healthy people for brain enhancement, novel uses of brain imaging in legal, diagnostic and educational contexts, and the many ways in which neuroscience is changing the way we think of ourselves as physical, mental and moral beings.