Community of Experts

Welcome to the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts page.

Here, we introduce our distinguished panel of professionals who are dedicated to guiding the ELOQUENCE project towards its mission of enhancing conversational AI technologies. This diverse group of experts brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, ensuring that our developments are ethically sound, inclusive, and aligned with European values. Through their strategic guidance and continuous evaluation, the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts plays a crucial role in shaping the future of secure, coherent, and unbiased AI interactions across various applications.

Full Members

Full members are the cornerstone of the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts, offering diverse expertise. These professionals lead our mission to advance ethical, inclusive conversational AI technologies. Their strategic input and rigorous evaluation guide the project, addressing AI challenges like context awareness, risk management, and interpretability. Their contributions are vital to shaping secure and unbiased AI interactions.

Ghasan Bhatti

Project Director

Expert in digital transformation and cybersecurity and commitment to ethical AI development ensure adherence to the highest standards of integrity and inclusivity

Ferdinand Ferroli

Director Policy & Research

A digital policy expert with a strong focus on responsible technology

Kai Hermsen

Co-Founder of Twinds foundation

Focused on establishing open-source “disposable identities” as a key technical enabler for building trust online

Amal Marc

Founder & Independent Advisor

She has delivered complex projects from legal affairs to consulting and program management, on behalf of public and private tech customers, as well as international tech regulators.

Miloš Mijomanović

Behavioral Scientist

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Holger Nitsch

Behavioral Scientist

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Nuria Oliver

Ph.D. Researcher in Law

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Julia Pshenichnaya

Ornithologist

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Sofia Tsekeridou

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Sofia

Behavioral Scientist

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Veterinarian

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Duško Martić

Head of Content Protection

Focused on anti-piracy activities, from detection and investigation to criminal proceedings and IP litigation/enforcement

Consortium Members

Consortium members are essential to ELOQUENCE’s success, offering unique perspectives and specialized knowledge. They collaborate to develop and implement advanced, ethical, and inclusive conversational AI technologies. Aligned with European values and standards, they guide the project’s direction, enhancing the reliability, accuracy, and transparency of AI interactions, particularly in safety-critical applications.

Stelios Andreadakis

Reader in Corporate and Financial Law

Expert in corporate governance and EU law, testified on EU fundamental rights before the European Parliament.

Alessio Brutti

Tenured researcher, head of the Speech Technology Lab

Expert in machine learning for speech, speaker verification, enhancement, localization, sound detection, and multi-modal tracking.

Giuseppe Caggianese

Behavioral Scientist

Expert in human-computer interaction, designing adaptive interfaces for augmented/virtual reality, with expertise in accessibility and usability evaluation.

Maja Fišić

Growth Advisor

Experienced Growth Advisor and Strategic Consultant with a robust background in tech startups, business creation, and product development.

Andreas Pamboris

Senior Project Manager

Experienced in managing and leading national and EU-funded projects with a focus on Systems, Distributed Systems, AI Systems, and Cloud/Edge Computing.

Đorđe Đokić

Partner at Privanova

Senior data protection executive with extensive experience directing international privacy compliance programmes.

Dušan Jakovetić

Associate Professor

Scientist focused on electrical and computer engineering as well as distributed learning, inference and optimization.

Tatiana Kalganova

Director of Center on AI: Social and Digital Transformation

Expert in covering the design and implementation of applied Intelligent Systems and green environmentally-friendly deep-learning approaches.

Meite Melero

MT team leader

Expert evaluator of European grant and project applications. Organizing workshops, and serving on boards related to language diversity and technology.

Helga Molbæk-Steensig

Post-doctoral researcher in the field of law

Expertise in European human rights law, focusing on AI’s impact on justice, and multidisciplinary policy and tech assessments.

Petr Motlicek

Senior Researcher

Scientist focusing especially on R&D activities in the domain of speech processing and spoken language understanding.

Haris Mouratidis

Professor and Director, Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS)

Expert in developing methodologies, modelling languages, ontologies, tools and platforms to support the analysis, design, monitoring of security, privacy, risk and trust for large-scale complex intelligent software system.

Theofanis Orphanoudakis

Project Manager

Research associate and independent consultant to several academic and research institutes, public organizations and private companies.

Oldrich Plchot

Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher, specializes in speech recognition, NLP, and dialogue system design, leading projects in EU-H2020.

Farhan Sahito

Partner at Privanova

Leverages his expertise in managing projects in cybersecurity, new technologies, law enforcement, standardization, business, and market strategies.

Martin Scheinin

Professor

Professor of constitutional, international, and human rights law, specializing in human rights assessment methodologies. Works on ethical, legal, and societal assessment

Jordi Luque Serrano

Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist

Leading expert in signal processing, time series analysis, and machine learning techniques,
particularly in speech, language, biometrics, and complex networks.

Alternate Members

The alternate members of the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts provide valuable support and diverse insights to our project. Ready to step in as needed, they enhance our multidisciplinary approach, ensuring continuity and comprehensive evaluation. Their contributions are crucial in maintaining the highest standards of ethical and inclusive AI development, aligned with European values.

Claudia Cevenini

Senior consultant & Adjunct Professor in IT Law

Focuses on digital and AI ethics, legal compliance, data protection, legal informatics, business innovation and start-ups. Independent expert for the European Commission.

Coen van Gulijk

Senior Scientist & Visiting professor & researcher

The first researcher in Europe to apply text processing for safety, focused on deep technical understanding of what text-analysis engines actually do.

Natalia Menéndez González

Research Associate

Focuses on technology and fundamental rights, specializing in privacy, data protection, and AI ethics.

Alexandre Quemy

AI Researcher

Research interests focus on the intersection of human rights, digital technologies, and environmental governance.

Francesca Palmiotto

Post-doctoral Researcher

Focusing on law and technology, Human Rights, AI governance, and corporate responsibility.

Katie Pentney

DPhil (PhD) Candidate

Focusing on government disinformation and freedom of expression, along with the capacity of traditional rights frameworks to respond to modern challenges.

Manuel Portela Charnejovsky

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests in algorithmic fairness, responsible artificial intelligence and data governance.

Alberto Quintavalla

Assistant Professor

Research interests focus on the intersection of human rights, digital technologies, and environmental governance.

Anca Radu

Ph.D. Researcher in Law

Examines legal and ethical questions around the design, development, and deployment of AI systems in the judiciary.

Léonard Van Rompaey

Post-doctoral Researcher

His research focuses on robotics, AI, and Big Tech and he is the Coordinator of the Copenhagen Legal Tech Lab.

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Ferdinand Ferroli

Director Policy & Research

Identity Valley

Ferdinand Ferroli is a digital policy expert with a strong focus on responsible technology. Currently serving as the Director of Policy & Research at IDENTITY Valley, he is heading the non-profit organisation’s research agenda related to the Digital Responsibility Goals (DRGs) and drives forward policy initiatives for a better digital transformation in the European Union and beyond.
With extensive experience in his former role as Head of Office for an MEP at the European Parliament, he has honed his expertise in areas such as European digital data policy, political communication, and European law, among other things, contributing to the negotiation of the European Data Governance Act.
Further professional experience includes research positions at the European Stability Initiative (ESI), the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and the Institute of State Sciences at the University of Vienna.
LinkedIn: Ferdinand Ferroli

Kai M. Hermsen

Co-Founder and Board Member

Twinds foundation

Kai Hermsen is a “trust in tech” activist. He believes all people need to understand current digital topics and how they impact their lives, to enable trust in technology and good stewardship of our societies.
He is currently building the “twinds foundation” concerned with establishing open-source “disposable identities” as a key technical enabler for building trust online. In addition, he advises and coaches different organizations on matters of digital trust and cybersecurity.
With charitable organization “Identity Valley” and all it´s partners, he actively drove the transition towards a more responsible digital space along the “Digital Responsibility Goals”. At “Siemens”, he demonstrated in practice how to transform and build trust through leading the “Charter of Trust”, a global initiative of 17 corporations collaborating to strengthen security of the digital space.
As a father of two, he is passionate about finding balance in life to enable the best work and most rewarding personal lives.
LinkedIn: Kai Hermsen

Amal Marc

Founder & Independent Advisor

Sublimis

Sublimis is an independent consulting firm specializing in innovative and high-impact tech projects.
Amal MARC, its founder, is Franco-Moroccan with over more than 20 years’ experience in the international business world, she has delivered complex projects from legal affairs to consulting and program management, on behalf of public and private tech customers, as well as international tech regulators.
Her multidisciplinary and multicultural approach is an asset in independent auditing, mediation and dispute resolution.
Ethics are at the heart of her approach, which aims to build and maintain a fair dialogue with the different ecosystems in a world of polycrisis.
She has been ethic board member of several H2020 strategic projects and continues her collaborations with academia through different research projects on the legal aspects of AI design and usage.
LinkedIn: Amal Marc

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Oto fon Kalefizikaka

Ornithologist

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Ornithologist

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Ornithologist

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Oto fon Kalefizikaka

Ornithologist

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Duško Martić

Head of Content Protection

United Group

Mr. Martic is the Head of Content Protection at United Group – a leading multi-play telecoms and media provider in South East Europe. Dusko heads all anti-piracy activities, from detection and investigation to criminal proceedings and IP litigation/enforcement. Mr. Martic also leads technical activities in content protection and detection of piracy (watermarking and fingerprinting technologies, OSINT tools, etc.) and product design for content protection tools.
He is a member of the Legal expert group of the European Union Intellectual Property Office Observatory and is representing United Group in the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). Dusko is listed as an industry expert in the Europol Platform for Experts in Intellectual Property Crime group and Europol Data Protection Experts Network. Mr. Martic is an experienced cybercrime and privacy lawyer and holds a Joint Doctorate (PhD) in Law, Science, and Technology.
LinkedIn: Duško Martić

Stelios Andreadakis

Reader in Corporate and Financial Law

Brunel University London

Dr Stelios Andreadakis is a Reader in Corporate and Financial Law at Brunel University London and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Law, Economics and Finance. During his academic career he has published extensively in renowned international journals and he has taught in different countries around the world.
Dr Andreadakis’ expertise lies in the areas of corporate governance, whistleblower protection and EU law, while in 2016 he was invited by the European Parliament to provide evidence as expert on issues of EU fundamental rights.

Alessio Brutti

Tenured researcher, head of the Speech Technology Lab

Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Augmented Intelligence

Alessio Brutti is a tenured researcher at FBK. He is currently the head of the Speech Technology Lab of the Centre for Augmented Intelligence. After graduating in Telecommunication engineering at the University of Padova in 2001, in 2003 he joined FBK. In 2007 he completed his PhD in Computer Science at University of Trento. He collaborates with the Faculty of Education of the University of Bolzano for the master degree in computational linguistics.
His research interests focus mainly on the use of machine learning approaches for digital audio and speech processing, including: speech recognition, speaker verification and recognition, speech enhancement, source localization and sound event detection. In particular, his research addresses the development of efficient, compact and dynamic neural models. Recently, he has been investigating multi-modal signal processing for audio-video person tracking and for biometrics.

LinkedIn: Alessio Brutti

Giuseppe Caggianese

Research Scientist, Ph.D. Dr.

National Research Council of Italy

Giuseppe Caggianese is a Research Scientist at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR). He was an Adjunct Professor of Informatics at the University of Basilicata from 2014 to 2019. He received the Laurea degree in Computer Science magna cum laude in 2010 and the PhD degree in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring in 2013 from the University of Basilicata, Italy.
He has participated in several funded research projects in the fields of health, cultural heritage, and manufacturing. He has authored over 45 scientific papers and contributed to several international conferences and workshops.
His research interests focus on human factors influencing the interaction between humans and computer systems. His activities focus on designing advanced interfaces that are adaptive to specific users’ needs, exploring their applicability in the context of augmented and virtual reality and evaluating their level of accessibility and usability.
LinkedIn: Giuseppe Caggianese

Maja Fišić

Growth Advisor

Experienced Growth Advisor and Strategic Consultant with a robust background in tech startups, business creation, and product development. Specializes in formulating and executing growth strategies, managing multinational projects for market expansion, and securing funding. Currently leads the DRG4Food Open Calls and acceleration program, focusing on fostering innovation in the data-driven agrifood sector. Offers expert mentoring and strategic consulting to drive business growth and innovation.

Andreas Pamboris

Senior Project Manager

GrantXpert Consulting Ltd

Andreas Pamboris received his Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College London (2014), following an M.Sc. (2009) and B.Sc. (2007) in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Cyprus. Throughout his studies, he earned multiple prestigious awards, including a scholarship from the Cyprus Fulbright Commission (2007), the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation (2009), and the A.G. Leventis Foundation (2009).
His research focuses on Systems, Distributed Systems, AI Systems, and Cloud/Edge Computing, with over 1800 citations in leading conferences and journals, including SIGCOMM and Transactions on Mobile Computing, earning him the ‘AI2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention’.
Pamboris has extensive experience in managing and leading national and EU-funded projects, working with industry leaders like Orange Labs UK. Notable projects include Horizon 2020 SLICES-DS, GrowMeUp, RIF – CODEVELOP (Green-HIT), and RIF – INTEGRATED (EnterCY).
LinkedIn: Andreas Pamboris

Đorđe Đokic

Partner at Privanova

Privanova

Co-founder of Privanova, Djordje DJOKIC is a senior data protection executive with extensive experience directing international privacy compliance programmes, and drafting and managing EU-funded projects.
Besides driving the legal affairs of Privanova, Djordje focuses on delivering its R&I and commercial services, with a particular focus on research ethics, data protection and ICT law. His professional experience goes from implementing comprehensive data protection strategies and ensuring regulatory compliance to managing international research projects.
LinkedIn: Đorđe Đokić

Dušan Jakovetić

Associate Professor

University of Novi Sad

Dušan Jakovetic received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2013.

He was a Research Fellow with the BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, from 2013 to 2015, and a Postdoctoral Researcher with IST from June 2013 to September 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad (UNSPMF), where he formerly worked as an Assistant Professor.

His research interests include distributed learning, inference and optimization. Dr. Jakovetic has participated at several EU-funded projects as a scientific and technical project-wide coordinator or as a principle (co-)investigator of the UNSPMF team.

Tatiana Kalganova

Professor

Brunel University

prof Tatiana Kalganova is keynote speaker and a Professor in Intelligent Systems and Director of Research Centre on AI: Social and Digital Transformation at Brunel University London. She has over 30 years of experience covering design and implementation of applied Intelligent Systems. She led the Brunel team to success winning numerous international awards. Her novel green environmentally-friendly deep learning approaches are ranked No 1 at paperswithcode for a number of datasets namely, MNIST, SKAD, etc. Inventor of 6 patented technologies and author of over 150 peer-refereed papers in highly respect journals and in conference proceedings, Dr Kalganova’s work has attracted in research funding from a combination of industrial, national and international research entities. She participated in EPSRC and UKRI panels, serves on the editorial board for several journals and member of EPSRC Full College, serves as a publicity and track chair for IEEE COINS 2024.
LinkedIn: Tatiana Kalganova

Maite Melero

MT team leader

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Maite Melero, doctor in Computational Linguistics, is an established researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), leading the Machine Translation group. She oversees multiple European and National projects in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Previously, she held positions at University Pompeu Fabra, the Barcelona Media Innovation Center, and Microsoft Research, where she contributed to the Grammar Checker for Spanish in MS Word and the MS Machine Translation system.
Melero has advised governmental bodies and authored reports on Language Equality in the Digital Age for the European Parliament. With over 80 publications in prestigious journals and conferences, she’s an expert evaluator of European grant and project applications, and actively participates in organizing international workshops. Melero also serves as Secretary of the SIGUL and Linguapax boards, showcasing her commitment to language diversity and technology.

LinkedIn: Maite Melero

Helga Molbæk-Steensig

Post-doctoral researcher in the field of law

European University Institute

My broad field of expertise is European human rights law. More specifically of interest to this project, I have worked with the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Rights since 2020 where I initially focused on the use of AI in the administration of justice.
I also have experience with the methodology of multidisciplinary assessments of policies and technologies from a previous project on the compliance of COVID-19 measures with fundamental rights.

LinkedIn: Helga Molbæk Steensig

Petr Motlicek

Senior Researcher

Idiap Research Institute

Dr. Petr Motlicek received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic, in 1999 and 2003, respectively.
Dr. Motlicek currently holds a position of associate professor at Faculty of Information Technology, BUT. From 2005, Dr. Motlicek has been a Postdoc Researcher at Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland.
In 2018, he received a position of senior research scientist at Idiap, focusing especially on R&D activities in the domain of speech processing and spoken language understanding. He has been participating as researcher or principal investigator in several European and national projects including many industrial collaborations.

LinkedIn: Petr Motlicek

Haris Mouratidis

Professor and Director, Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS)

University of Essex

Haralambos (Haris) Mouratidis is Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Essex, Director of its Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) and guest Professor of Cyber Security at Stockholm University, Sweden and University of the Ionian in Greece. He is interested in developing methodologies, modelling languages, ontologies, tools and platforms to support the analysis, design, monitoring of security, privacy, risk and trust for large-scale complex intelligent software systems. He has published more than 200 papers (h-index 40) and he has led and/or participated in projects of overall value of c.€30M, funded mostly by the EU and the UK.
He is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and “Standards-maker” of the British Standards Institution for the “Privacy-By-Design” and “Software and Systems Engineering” national committees. He is elected Vice-Chair of the IFIP WG on Secure Engineering, Expert Fellow of the UK Digital Economy Network Plus, on the register of ENISA’s experts and member of its WG on European Cybersecurity Skills Framework, and member of working groups at ERCIM, IFIP, and the BCS.

LinkedIn: Haris Mouratidis

Theofanis Orphanoudakis

Project Manager

Synelixis Solutions SA

Theofanis Orphanoudakis received his Dipl-Ing. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 1998, both from the National Technical University of Athens. He is an associate professor at HOU and director of the DSMC Lab as well as a research associate and independent consultant to several academic and research institutes, public organizations and private companies.
He has participated in several EU ICT-related research programs as a senior researcher and scientific coordinator and has also served as a project reviewer. He has over 140 publications in international journals and conferences and has served as a member of Technical Program Committees and a reviewer for several journals and conferences.

LinkedIn: Theofanis Orphanoudakis

Oldřich Plchot

Senior Researcher

Brno University of Technology

Dr. Oldřich Plchot http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~iplchot Google Scholar h-index 33, (Ing. [MS]. Brno University of Technology, 2007, Ph.D. Brno University of Technology, 2014) is a senior researcher in BUT Speech@FIT research group.
He worked on EU-sponsored project MOBIO (7th FP) and in several projects sponsored by the Czech Ministry of Interior and various grant agencies. He significantly contributed to the success of BUT team in numerous international evaluations organized by NIST (Speaker and Language recognition since 2007) as well as in evaluations organized within IARPA and DARPA projects where he was a key member of BUT team.
He obtained two Faculty Research Awards funded by Google Inc. and has also been funded by the Tencent Rhino Bird program. Currently, he is also involved in NLP and dialogue system design while leading the BUT team in the EU-H2020 project ELOQUENCE.
LinkedIn: Oldřich Plchot

Farhan Sahito

Partner at Privanova

Privanova

Co-founder of Privanova, Farhan SAHITO leverages his expertise in managing cutting-edge projects across diverse realms such as cybersecurity, new technologies, law enforcement, standardization, business, and market strategies. Dr. Sahito possesses extensive experience in overseeing multiple projects under the Horizon Europe, H2020, and FP7 programs, and has coordinated various H2020 projects, including Phoenix. He also represents Privanova on influential platforms such as the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee, UNODC, and the INTERPOL Cyber Exchange Platform.
Dr. Sahito’s academic background includes a Ph.D. in Cybersecurity from Graz University of Technology, Austria; a Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Melbourne, Australia; and a Master’s degree in IT and Economics. His professional journey includes serving as a former INTERPOL official and as an Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Security Council Sanctions Committee in New York.
Since 2015, Dr. Sahito has been involved as an external evaluator and rapporteur for the European Commission, working across various programs including FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, the EIC Accelerator, and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

LinkedIn: Farhan Sahito

Martin Scheinin

Professor

European University Institute and University of Oxford

Leads ELOQUENCE work on ethical, legal and societal assessment and validation of emerging ELOQUENCE technologies. Professor of constitutional, international or human rights law since 1993. Has worked on human rights assessment and its methodologies, including in a human rights indicator project with the United Nations, in EU-funded FP7 project SURVEILLE on the ethical, legal and cost-benefit assessment of surveillance technologies, and in assessing countries’ strategies to combat COVID-19.
Formerly: UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, UN Human Rights Committee member, member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency

Jordi Luque

Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist

Telefonica

Senior Research Scientist at Telefónica Research and an Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
With 15+ years of experience, he is a leading expert in signal processing, time series analysis, and machine learning techniques, particularly in speech, language, biometrics, and complex networks.
Currently, he serves as Principal Consortium Coordinator for the EU project ELOQUENCE, aiming to research and develop innovative solutions for high-stakes language applications.

LinkedIn: Jordi Luque

Claudia Cevenini

Senior consultant & Adjunct Professor in IT Law

University of Bologna

Senior consultant in digital and AI ethics, legal compliance, data protection, legal informatics, business innovation and start ups. Adjunct professor of IT Law, Dept. of Information Technology – Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. Ph.D. in Legal Informatics and IT law. Master’s Degree in Business magna cum laude. Ethics Advisor of European projects (REMAKING, RURACTIVE, ENLIGHTEN.ME, DEDICAT6G, RURITAGE). Member of the External Ethics Advisory Board of the H2020 project ROXANNE. WP leader of the H2020 ATCO2 and BISON projects. Independent Expert, Evaluator, monitor and rapporteur for the European Commission. Author of 70+ publications, lecturer at international conferences and seminars, has collaborated in several EU and national research projects. Technical consultant of the Bologna Tribunal. Italian mother tongue, is fluent in English, German, French and Spanish.

LinkedIn: Claudia Cevenini

Coen van Gulijk

Senior Scientist; Visiting professor

TNO; University of Huddersfield; Delft University of Technology

Coen van Gulijk was the first researcher in Europe to apply text processing for safety. The point in case being railway safety. Back in 2014, he and his team could do little more than group near-miss incident reports into groups. But eventually, it became technically possible to match unstructured reports in a swiss multi-lingual database (German, French and Italian) to individual risk control measures with an accuracy of 98,5%. Hands-on experience and a deep technical understanding of what text-analysis engines actually do makes Coen a valuable partner to the network.

Coen recognizes the spectacular capacity for learning with (V)LLMs. At the same time he is concerned about knowledge extraction. Prompt engineering, for instance, simply steers the probabilistic inference mechanism toward a desired outcome. Can you really speak about unbiased answers when you do that? It is questions like these that Coen can help out with in ELOQUENCE.

LinkedIn: Coen van Gulijk

Natalia Menendez Gonzalez

Research Associate

European University Institute

Natalia Menéndez González is a Research Associate at the Centre for a Digital Society working on the intersection of technologies with fundamental rights, particularly privacy and data protection. She is also a co-founder of The DigiCon blog, a visiting researcher at the Biometrics Law Lab of the Center for IT & IP Law at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology and former vice-chair of the PhD students in AI Ethics research group. Her other research interests include AI Ethics, especially for Natural Language Processing and the intersection between ArtificiaI Intelligence and Democracy.
LinkedIn: Natalia Menendez Gonzalez

Alexandre Quemy

AI Researcher

Proofs (proofs.io)

Alexandre holds a PhD in Machine Learning during which he has developed new AI methods for prediction and explanation of justice decisions. In particular, he built the European Court of Human Rights Open Data project, the largest curated and evolving datasets about the legal domain: the European Court of Human Rights Open Data project.
Professionally, he worked as an R&D engineer at IBM before joining the Financial Crime Threat Mitigation department at HSBC. There, he developed and validated large models and managed the governance cycle of global models (>200M users) built on critically private information, in order to fight against money laundering, terrorism, human trafficking, or fraud.
After that, he joined a start-up to develop a data synthesizer based on new generative models, notably for privacy purposes or counterfactual analysis.
His current research focuses on AI agents, autonomous systems and LLMs, in particular, applied to critical systems and society-impacting processes.

LinkedIn: Alexandre Quemy

Francesca Palmiotto

Post-doctoral Researcher

Hertie School, Centre for Fundamental Rights

Dr. Francesca Palmiotto is a postdoctoral researcher at Hertie School, co-leading the “Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees” project. Francesca is the co-founder and chief editor of DigiCon. Her research explores the intersection of law and technology, focusing on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence, the Governance of New Technologies and Corporate Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Palmiotto earned her PhD in 2023 from the European University Institute, following magna cum laude graduation from the Law Faculty of the University of Turin and obtaining an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws from the EUI.
LinkedIn: Francesca Palmiotto

Katie Pentney

DPhil (PhD) Candidate

University of Oxford / McGill University

Katie Pentney is a DPhil (PhD) Candidate in Law at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
Her research focuses on government disinformation and freedom of expression, and on the capacity of traditional rights frameworks to respond to modern challenges.
Katie has worked as a lawyer and policy specialist in Canada and abroad. Her work has been published in leading journals including Human Rights Law Review, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Journal of Media Law and ECHR Law Review.
Her podcast, “Decoding Hate”, concerning the intersection of freedom of expression, hate speech and AI, was funded by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
She holds an Advanced LL.M. in European and International Human Rights Law (summa cum laude) from Leiden University and a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada).
Linkedin: Katie Pentney

Manuel Portela Charnejovsky

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Short Bio (max 150 words)* Manuel is a Research Associate at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He holds a PhD in GeoInformatics and his research interests are on the field of algorithmic fairness, responsible AI and data governance. He has been working in the context of Smart Cities since 2011 and in 2023 started the DATALOG association, the first EU Recognized Data Altruism Organization.
LinkedIn: Manuel Portela Charnejovsky

Alberto Quintavalla

Assistant Professor

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dr Alberto Quintavalla is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and affiliated researcher of the Jean Monnet Centre on Digital Governance.
He has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (recipient of the Guidetti Prize). He has been awarded the prize for the best ‘new voices’ 2020/2021 published in the European Journal of Legal Studies.
His research interests are at the intersection of human rights, digital technologies, and environmental governance. He was recently the co-editor of ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights’ (Oxford University Press).
LinkedIn: Alberto Quintavalla

Anca Radu

Ph.D. Researcher in Law

European University Institute

Anca Radu is a doctoral researcher in Law at the European University Institute, working under the supervision of Professor Giovanni Sartor. She examines legal and ethical questions around the design, development, and deployment of AI systems in the judiciary.
She is a Teaching Assistant at the School of Transnational Governance, EUI. Besides her academic activities, she acts as an independent Scientific Expert for the Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ).
She is also a Senior Policy Officer on Human Rights for CAIDP Europe. She has been with CAIDP for one year and a half and has contributed to the educational and policy activities of the Centre. As a former Lawyer within the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, she has solid human rights expertise.
LinkedIn: Anca Radu

Léonard Van Rompaey

Post-doctoral Researcher

University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

Léonard Van Rompaey has been building his expertise in AI and law since 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in AI law and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He is the coordinator of the Copenhagen Legal Tech Lab, an organization that promotes collaboration between the legal industry and technology producers. His research focuses on robotics, AI, and Big Tech.
LinkedIn: Léonard Van Rompaey