Main Focus
- Digitalisation, Data Protection and Privacy
- Security and Legitimacy
- Conceptions of Autonomy
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Research ethics
Curriculum Vitae
Elisa Orrù is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Department of Public Law). In January 2020 she received her Habilitation (German qualification for full professorships) for the discipline Philosophy with a work on the legitimacy of digital security measures of the European Union. In Summer Semester 2023 she held the deputy Professorship for Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the Freiburg University.
She studied philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy) and completed a PhD in law at the University of Pisa (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Danilo Zolo. As PhD candidate and, then, as postdoctoral fellow she has conducted research, among others, at the Husserl Archive in Freiburg (Germany), at the Max-Planck Institute for Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany), and at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA).
Furthermore, Elisa Orrù is a member of the editorial staff of the journal "Jura Gentium" (section "Philosophy and History of International Law") and ethics advisor of the ERC-Project EXTREME ("The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism", PI Maria Petrova). She regularly serves as expert reviewer for the European Commission and the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the evaluation of research project proposals.
