Core team

Meet the Board of DigiCon

Francisco de Abreu Duarte

Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Law and Tech @Catolica Global.

Francesca Palmiotto

Co-Founder

Criminal and Tech @Instituto de Empresa.

Giovanni De Gregorio

Co-Founder

PLMJ Chair @Catolica Global

Natalia Menendez

Co-Founder

Law and Tech Researcher @EUI.
Facial Recognition Technology, Proportionality and AI Ethics

Heads of Section

Yeliz Döker

Co-Founder

AI and Ethics PhD Researcher @EUI.
Data Privacy Lawyer.
PS and Sci-fi geek.

Sümeyye Elif Biber

Head of Digital Rights

Postdoctoral Researcher in European Public Law and Digitalisation at the University of Luxembourg

Sarah Tas

Co-Head of Digital State

Data Protection and Criminal Law Researcher @EUI
European Administrative Lawyer Fundamental Rights Activist

Lucas Muniz da Conceição

Head of Platform Governance

Constitutional Law PhD Researcher @UniBocconi. Comparativist, platform governance & societal constitutionalism.

Francesca Fumagalli

Communications Expert

EU law, digital technologies and standardisation PhD student @unipd

Simona Demkova

Co-Head of Digital State

Assistant Professor of European law at Leiden Law School (Europa Institute).
Human-centered researcher of AI and EU law.

Editing Team

Anna Morandini

Editor

EU and Tech Law Researcher @EUI.
Platform Accountability

Leonore Ten hulsen

Editor

Law and Tech PhD Researcher @EUI Open-source Intelligence, Privatization of Criminal Investigations

Maria Magierska

Editor

Law and Data Protection Researcher @ EUI Enforcement of Digital Rights

Moritz Schramm

Editor

Researching EU administrative law and platform governance @Humboldt-University of Berlin & Visiting@EUI

Natalia Menendez

Editor

Law and Tech Researcher @EUI.
Facial Recognition Technology, Proportionality and AI Ethics

Sarah Tas

Editor

Data Protection and Criminal Law Researcher @EUI
European Administrative Lawyer Fundamental Rights Activist

Valerie Albus

Editor

EU Law Researcher @EUI.
Online Platforms, Criminal Law and Philosophy

Deniz Habibe Seval

Sci-Fi Editor | geek

Ph.D. Research on Law and Technology @University of Ottawa | Blockchain, Privacy, and Cyberfeminism

Eleni Nerantzi

Editor

Criminal Law and AI PhD Researcher @ EUI. Criminal Responsibility of AI Systems

Sci-Fi Team

ETIENNE VALK

Sci-Fi Editor | geek

SCI-FI EDITOR Information Law Researcher @IViR (University of Amsterdam). Music freak and geek.

Anca Radu

Editor

Human Rights and Tech PhD Researcher @EUI. Human Rights Lawyer. Subscriber to the present moment.

Daniel Chia Matallana

Sci-Fi Editor | geek

Lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. He holds an LLM in International Law and Politics from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and is a PhD candidate in the School of Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington.