People | Nexa Fellows

The Fellows of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society contribute pro bono to the activities of the center. Some of them, the "research fellows", perform research specifically for the Center, either as a Ph.D. student or as a "assegnista di ricerca". Fellows are appointed by the directors. Fellowships last for a calendar year and are renewable.



Antonio Casilli - Faculty Fellow Massimo Durante - Faculty Fellow Giovanni Leghissa - Faculty Fellow Luca Peyron - Faculty Fellow




Mauro Alovisio - Fellow Eleonora Bassi - Fellow Lorenzo Benussi - Fellow Carlo Blengino - Fellow
Fabio Chiusi - Fellow Marco Ciurcina - Fellow Deborah De Angelis - Fellow Giulio De Petra - Fellow
Giuseppe Futia - Fellow Giovanni B. Gallus - Fellow Guido Noto La Diega Stefano Leucci - Fellow
Federico Morando Fabio Nascimbeni - Fellow Ludovica Paseri - Fellow Francesco Ruggiero - Fellow
Monica A. Senor - Fellow Giuseppe Vaciago - Fellow Cristina Voto - Fellow





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Antonio Casilli

Faculty Fellow

Antonio A. Casilli is full professor of sociology at Telecom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. more >

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Massimo Durante

Faculty Fellow

Massimo Durante is Professor in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the Department of Law, University of Turin. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, and a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Paris IV Sorbonne. more >

Giovanni Leghissa

Giovanni Leghissa

Faculty Fellow

Giovanni Leghissa (Trieste, 1964) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the Università di Torino. He is editor of "aut aut", and director of the online journal of philosophy "Philosophy Kitchen". more >

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Luca Peyron

Faculty Fellow

Luca Peyron is a jurist and theologian. He directs the Pastorale Universitaria Regionale and founded and coordinates the Apostolato Digitale service, one of the first global services of the Catholic Church that deals with the relationship between digital and faith. more >

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Legal staff lawyer at University of Torino. He has specialized in ICT Law and Data Protection, he is author of scientific articles published in Italian journals and co-author on law books; he is a member of the "Commissione Informatica del Consiglio dell'Ordine degli Avvocati di Torino". more >

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Eleonora Bassi is a researcher and consultant with a legal and philosophical background. She graduated in Law and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (University of Torino). more >

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Lorenzo Benussi, master's degree in Communication Sciences and PhD in Economics of Innovation, is advisor for digital policy at the TOP-IX Consortium where he develops projects and policies to support digital innovation. more >

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Carlo Blengino lives in Turin and is a lawyer and a partner of the legal firm “Studio Legale Catalano Penalisti Associati”. Carlo deals exclusively with criminal law cases, with special reference to professional liabilities, economics criminal laws, intellectual property rights, ICT law, privacy and data protection. more >

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Fabio Chiusi

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Fabio Chiusi is a freelance journalist (Wired, L'Espresso, Repubblica) and blogger (ilNichilista, Chiusi nella rete) who regularly writes about Internet censorship, surveillance and the complex relationship between digital technologies, politics and society. more >

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Marco Ciurcina is an Italian lawyer, working in the field of commercial and contractual law, Information Technology law, Copyright, Patent, Trademark, and Privacy law, particularly, with special focus on free software licenses, open content and open data. more >

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Deborah De Angelis is an attorney-at-law based in Rome, Italy. She is currently the representative and legal lead of the Italian Chapter in the Creative Commons Global Network since its constitution in 2018. Deborah is a legal expert in copyright law, entertainment law and new technologies. more >

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Giulio De Petra received his degree in Economics from University of Siena, Italy. He worked in the service organization in BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro), one of the top italian banks, as expert in software design methodologies and in database administration. more >

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Giuseppe Futia is currently Senior Data Scientist at GraphAware Srl. His R&D activity covers different topics, including Graph Representation Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Recommendation Systems. more >

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Giovanni Battista Gallus is a lawyer, admitted before the Supreme Court, ISO 27001:2013 Certified Lead Auditor, member of Array.eu, a network of IT Lawyers. more >

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Guido Noto La Diega is a Scotland-based Sicilian academic and practitioner who has been working on law & innovation for over a decade in Italy, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, and Russia. more >

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Stefano Leucci is a lawyer working in the field of data protection and artificial intelligence. more >

Federico Morando

Federico is an economist, with interdisciplinary research interests focused on the intersection between law, economics and technology. He holds an undergraduate degree and a master’s degree in economics (from Bocconi Univ. and from the Univ. of Toulouse) and a Ph.D. in Institutions, Economics and Law from the Univ. of Turin and Ghent. more >

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Fabio Nascimbeni, an economist with a PhD on Information and Knowledge Society, works as Human Capital Development Expert at the European Training Foundation. He is a fellow at the Centro de Estudos sobre Tecnologia e Sociedade of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil and a Senior Fellow of the European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN).more >

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Ludovica Paseri is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the Department of Law, University of Turin. In 2022, she obtained a PhD in Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, in co-tutelle with the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) of the University of Luxembourg. more >

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Francesco Ruggiero (1977) is the founder of the literary group sparajurij and is in the editorial board of the journal “Atti Impuri”. He is specialized in contemporary Italian literature.more >

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Former criminal lawyer specializing in privacy, data protection, ICT law and digital forensics, Monica A. Senor has been a member of the staff of the Italian Supervisory Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) since December 2018. more >

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Giuseppe Vaciago has been a lawyer of the Milan Bar since 2002 and he is actually a partner of R&P Legal Firm. For the last 10 years his primary focus has been IT Law with a focus on cyber crime. He has assisted many national and international IT companies. more >

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Cristina Voto

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Cristina Voto is a research fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin within the ERC FACETS project and, in the same institution, she is an adjunct lecturer in Visual Communication. more >

Here is available a list of our alumni