Main Focus
- Conceptions of Autonomy
- Digitalization, Data Protection, and Privacy
- Security and Legitimacy
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Research Ethics
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Appointments
- Since 2022: Senior Researcher, Department of Public Law
- 2026: Admitted to the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the research project “Autonomy: Concept, Value and Challenges of a Key Philosophical Concept”
- Since 2025: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Criminalistics Institute of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)
Professional Experience
- Summer semester 2023: Interim Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Freiburg
- 2013–2026: Researcher and project leader at the Centre for Security and Society, University of Freiburg
- 2010–2012: Researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, Chair of Political Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Italy
Education
- January 2023: Habilitation in Political Philosophy, Italian Ministry of University and Research
- January 2020: Habilitation with a philosophical analysis of the legitimacy of digital security measures of the European Union, Venia Legendi in Philosophy, University of Freiburg
- 2011: Research stay at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
- 2009: Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law, Heidelberg
- 2006–2008: Research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (previous focus of today’s Institute)
- 2007–2009: Scholarship for advanced study at the Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg, funded by the University of Milan
- July 2008: Doctorate at the Faculty of Law, University of Pisa, Italy, thesis on the legitimacy of international criminal tribunals
- 1999–2004: Philosophy degree at the University of Milan, Italy
