Elisabetta Biasin

Elisabetta Biasin is an Associate Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), where she conducts research on data, AI and cybersecurity law in healthcare. She is currently a member of the European Commission’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Advisory Board. Elisabetta has conducted extensive research in the field of medical device cybersecurity. As Research Fellow at the  Stanford Law School’s Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF), she led with Erik Kamenjasevic, a research project on ‘Transatlantic Perspectives on AI-based Medical Device Cybersecurity’. Elisabetta has also been an Academic Visitor at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law, a Visiting Researcher at the Harvard MIT Center for Regulatory Science, an External Collaborating Expert on Data Protection of Big Data and Real-World Data at the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and expert to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Strategic Partnership on Digital Health. Prior to joining academia, Elisabetta worked at the Bolzano Criminal Court (Assistant), European Digital Rights (Policy Intern), Array and Deloitte Legal Italy (Legal Advisor). Her works on cybersecurity law have been published in several outlets, including the International Cybersecurity Law Review, the European Journal of Risk Regulation, Law, Technology and Humans, Edward Elgar and Cambridge University Press.

Institution

KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)

Belgium

The Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) is a research center at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at KU Leuven, with currently a staff of over 85 researchers specialized in legal aspects of IT innovation and intellectual property. Researchers working at CiTiP focus on the fundamental re-thinking of the current legal framework, necessitated by the rapid evolution of technology in various fields, such as government, media, health care, informatics, digital economy, transport, culture, etc. Their research constantly aspires cross-fertilization between legal, technical, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives. CiTiP has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous systems, Data Protection & Privacy, eHealth & Pharma, Ethics & Law, Intellectual Property, Media & Telecommunications and (Cyber)security.