Associate Professor of Private Law at the Dirpolis Institute at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Prof. Palmerini also teaches Private law and bioethics at the University of Pisa. Her main research interests cover law and technology, medical law, tort law and bioethics. She coordinated the two-year European (FP7) project RoboLaw (www.robolaw.eu), which was awarded with the World Technology Award in 2013, on the ethical, social and legal implications of robotic technologies. She carried other research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Science and Education (Genetic identity and disabilities: the protection against discrimination in civil law”, 2007-2009) and by private institutions (Droit – Droni in Toscana, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, 2015-2016). She is a member to the Association of Italian Civil Lawyers and the European Law Institute (ELI), where she partakes in the Special Interest Group on Digital law.
