Prof. Simone Scagliarini – Project Coordinator
Full Professor of Constitutional and Public Law, he currently teaches Law-Making and Evaluation and Public Economic Law in the “Marco Biagi” Department of Economics, as well as Financial Law in the Department of Law at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE). In the past, he also taught Computer and New Technologies Law in the Department of Physical, Computer, and Mathematical Sciences, and Public Law, European Union Law, Administrative Law, and Local Government Law at the “Marco Biagi” Department of Economics of the same University.
Since the academic year 2023/24, he has been teaching Digital Economy Law, which for the three-year period 2025-27 is a Jean Monnet module, co-funded by the European Union within the ECODIGITAL project.
For several years, he has been conducting teaching activities on personal data protection and the impact of new technologies in the PhD program in Labour, Development and Innovation, in the Master’s program in Health, Safety and Environment Expert in Private and Public Workplaces – HSE Management, and in the advanced training course in Management for the Direction of Complex Healthcare Structures (UNIMORE). He also teaches in the Master’s programs for Personal Data Protection Manager: Data Protection Officer and Privacy Expert, and Personal Data Protection, Cybersecurity and New Technologies Law: Data Protection Officer, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (Roma Tre University).
He is the coordinator of the “Law and ethics for autonomous driving” working group within the Modena Automotive Smart Area (MASA) project and the Observatory on Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies of the “Marco Biagi” University Foundation. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the SMART CITY 4.0 Sustainable LAB Research Laboratory, based at the University of Parma.
He has authored over one hundred publications in the fields of sources of law, constitutional rights, constitutional justice, and regional law.
For more information, you can consult his personal webpage: morespace.economia.unimore.it/simonescagliarini
prof. Giacomo Menegus – researcher and co-teacher
Tenure-track researcher (RTT) in Constitutional and Public Law, he currently teaches Public Law and Public Economic Law in the “Marco Biagi” Department of Economics, as well as Fundamental Rights (in English) in the Department of Law at the University of Macerata.
Starting from the academic year 2025/26, he also teaches Digital Economy Law, which for the three-year period 2025-27 is a Jean Monnet module, co-funded by the European Union within the ECODIGITAL project.
From 2019 to 2025, he worked at the Department of Law of the University of Macerata, first as a Research Fellow (with projects on “The regulation of the sharing economy in the constitutional perspective. Between legislators, judges and platforms”, “Public profiles of home-sharing”, and “Fundamental rights, scientific and technological innovation”), then as a fixed-term researcher type A (RTDa) within the PON project “Constitutional profiles of sustainable and accessible tourism”.
During the same period, he collaborated, through supplementary teaching and teaching assistant contracts, with the Chair of Constitutional Law of Prof. Giovanni Piccirilli at the Department of Law of LUISS Guido Carli in Rome.
He unanimously obtained the national scientific qualification as an Associate Professor for the field GIUR-05/A Constitutional and Public Law in 2022, and a PhD in European Union Law and National Legal Systems in 2018 from the University of Ferrara (supervisor Prof. Roberto Bin). He conducted two research stays in Germany, at the Institut für Staatsrecht, Verfassungslehre und Rechtsphilosophie of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (01/10/2016 – 31/07/2017) and at the Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht (01/12/2023 – 31/01/2024).
Dr. Virginia Remondino – contract lecturer
Research Fellow in European Union Law at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies, in the academic year 2024/2025 she was a contract lecturer at the “Marco Biagi” Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), where she taught Digital Economy Law – Jean Monnet module.
Previously, she was a PhD student in European Union Law at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies. Her doctoral thesis, titled “The trade, climate and green energy triad in the EU’s new generation free trade agreements”, investigates the methods of integration and implementation of clauses aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change, in particular through the promotion of renewable energy, within new-generation free trade agreements negotiated and/or concluded by the European Union with third countries.
She was also a stagiaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the cabinet of Judge L. S. Rossi, as well as an intern at the Institute of International Affairs (IAI). Her main research interests focus on the institutional and constitutional law of the European Union, the relationship between EU law and international law, and the specific legal instruments of EU action in environmental, energy, cybersecurity, and digital trade matters.
Dr. Enza Restaino – organizational secretariat
PhD student in Labour, Development and Innovation at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, she managed the organizational secretariat of the project for the academic year 2024/25.
She graduated in Law from the University of Florence, presenting a thesis titled “AI and personal data protection in the health sector: between perspectives and critical issues”. Her main research interests primarily concern the relationship between law and new technologies, Health and artificial intelligence in healthcare, privacy and personal data protection, the phenomenon of Data Breaches, and cybersecurity.
She was also a member of the Observatory on Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies of the “Marco Biagi” University Foundation.
Dr. Giulio Corradini – technical collaborator
Master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, he is a technical collaborator for the project and is responsible for the maintenance and updating of the Ecodigital project website.
He graduated in Computer Science in 2024, defending a thesis titled “Quarkus: a new framework for cloud-native applications”. He has gained professional experience in developing applications and websites and currently works in cybersecurity and penetration testing. His main interests include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital markets, and the evolution of European digital regulations.