Turin, June 27, 2024

The Nexa Center for Internet and Society today announces the new members of the Nexa community for the 2024-2025 academic year.
This year there are three new Faculty Fellows: Alessandra Quarta (University of Turin), Daniela Tafani (University of Pisa) e Guglielmo Tamburrini (University of Naples Federico II).
The new Faculty Fellows

Alessandra Quarta – Faculty Fellow
Alessandra Quarta is an Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Turin. With a strong focus on property law and contract law, her research explores themes related to commons, urban regeneration, and the legal frameworks of digital markets. She has been the coordinator of the H2020 Generative European Commons Living Lab and a tutor of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action. She published Non-proprietà. Teoria e prassi dell’accesso ai beni (2016); The Turning Point in Private Law. Ecology, Technology, and the Commons (with U. Mattei); Mercati senza scambi. Le metamorfosi del contratto nel capitalismo della sorveglianza (2020), and several articles in scientific journals. She is preparing the second edition of the handbook Diritto privato dei mercati digitali (with G. Smorto, forthcoming).

Daniela Tafani – Faculty Fellow
Daniela Tafani is a fixed-term researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. She has been a research fellow at the University of Bologna. She is a member of the board of directors of the Italian Association for the promotion of Open Science (AISA). She is vice-president of the Italian Society of Kantian Studies (Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica’ and of the Scientific Committee of the journal ‘Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie’. She is a member of the Italian Society for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. She has worked on Kantian moral philosophy (Virtù e felicità in Kant, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 2006), the philosophy of law in German idealism (Beiträge zur Rechtsphilosophie des deutschen Idealismus, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2011), the relationship between ethics and law in the 20th century (Distinguere uno Stato da una banda di ladri. Etica e diritto nel XX secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014), and contemporary libertarian paternalisms. Her current research interests include Kant’s moral philosophy and the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence.

Guglielmo Tamburrini – Faculty Fellow
Guglielmo Tamburrini (PhD in Philosophy, Columbia University, 1987) is Research Associate and retired Philosophy of Science and Technology Professor at Università di Napoli Federico II in Italy. Coordinator of the first European project on the ethics of robotics (ETHICBOTS, VI FP, 2005-2008), he was awarded in 2014 the Giulio Preti International Prize by the Regional Parliament of Tuscany for contributing to the dialogue between Science, Philosophy and Democracy. His current research interests concentrate on the philosophy of AI, with a special focus on ethical issues arising in the context of human interactions with AI systems. His public engagement activities are mainly concerned with new threats for peace arising from militarized AI, and with related arms control initiatives. He is Scientific board member of USPID (Unione degli Scienziati per il Disarmo), member of ICRAC (InternationalCommittee for Robot Arms Control), and member of ISODARCO (International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts).
Honoring the ethos of “networking” which is central to an Internet & Society center such as Nexa, the Nexa community is also complemented by Faculty Associates, who will actively collaborate with the Nexa Center community through an array of channels.
These relationships, as well as the involvement of former collaborators, partners, students, interns and other colleagues, are fundamental to the work and identity of the Nexa Center, as well as to enhancing its capacity and expertise. The Nexa Center sincerely thanks both those community members who will maintain their affiliations with the Center during the coming academic year, as well as friends who – after important past contributions – will move to alumni status.
Finally, the Nexa Center commemorates the approaching 3rd anniversary of Philippe Aigrain‘s death (11 July 2021) and the 7th anniversary of Stefano Rodotà (23 giugno 2017). Both Trustees of the Nexa Center since its foundation in 2006, Aigrain and Rodotà were scholars and friends whose ideas and deep humanity left an indelible mark on the memory of all Nexa people.
Returning as Faculty Fellows
Antonio Casilli, Massimo Durante, Giovanni Leghissa, Luca Peyron.
Returning as Fellows
Mauro Alovisio, Eleonora Bassi, Lorenzo Benussi, Carlo Blengino, Marco Ciurcina, Deborah De Angelis, Giulio De Petra, Giuseppe Futia, Giovanni B. Gallus, Guido Noto La Diega, Stefano Leucci, Federico Morando, Fabio Nascimbeni, Monica A. Senor, Giuseppe Vaciago.
Returning as Faculty Associates
Simone Arcagni, Enrico Bertacchini, Mario Calderini, Fabio Chiusi, Alessandro Cogo, Giancarlo Frosio, Marco Torchiano, Daniele Trinchero, Giorgio Ventre.
The Nexa Community is also formed by the Board of Trustees.