Andrea Cioni
Andrea Cioni graduated in law in October 2019 with a thesis in private law on the legal issues raised by genome editing technologies, with a grade of 110 cum laude. In June 2024, he obtained his PhD at the University of Pisa with the highest distinction, defending his thesis on civil liability for pharmaceutical damages. Andrea is currently a post-doctoral researcher and adjunct professor at the same University. He is working on a project on artificial intelligence and medical liability. He has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and at the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law in Vienna. His main areas of interest are tort law, product liability, and the law of new technologies.
Florinda Coro
Florinda Coro is a PhD student at the Research Centre Enrico Piaggio and the department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione at the University of Pisa in Italy. Her research activity is currently aimed at developing open-source medical devices for low-middle income countries with a special focus on an in-vitro diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of the malaria disease. Her interests range from design, mechanical and electronic prototyping to regulation with the target of making safe, appropriate and affordable medical devices accessible to everybody.
Maria Elena Lippi
Maria Elena Lippi is a PhD candidate in Comparative Private Law at the University of Pisa. In 2019, she graduated in Law in Pisa with a result of 110/110 cum laude, presenting a dissertation titled “The protection of personal data in the context of social media between individual and collective privacy”, supervised by Professor Valentina Calderai. In 2021 she obtained an LLM in Intellectual Property & Information Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law (King’s College London) under the supervision of Professor Perry Keller. Her thesis (“Open and private: the use of open source software in the context of wearable medical devices”) was marked with distinction and awarded the Dickson Poon School of Law Prize for “The best dissertation/writing project on the LLM in Intellectual Property & Information Law” for the 2020-21 academic year. Her current research project analyses the legal status of personal and non-personal data and the possible role played by property law in relation to data in light of the current EU regulatory framework. Her main research interests are data protection and intellectual property law, with specific attention to the interplay between law and new technologies.
Filippo Morello
Filippo Morello is a Research Fellow in Comparative Private Law at the University of Pisa, Italy. He also works as an Adjunct Professor in Comparative Law at the same University. Before joining the University of Pisa, he was a Land Steiermark Fellow at the University of Graz. He completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Private Law in co-supervision at the University of Pisa, Italy, and the University of Osnabrück, Germany, defending the dissertation ‘Consumer Contract Law and Peer-to-Peer Credit. German and Italian Perspectives on the EU Regulation of Retail Financial Markets’. He holds a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford and read law at the University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. His research interests lay at the intersection of contract law, consumer law, and the law of financial markets. He has published in Italian and European law journals and is an Analyst at EU Law Live.