Tatjana Evas is a Policy Analyst in the European Parliamentary Research Service and Associate Professor of EU and Comparative law (on leave) at Tallinn University of Technology. In 2011, she received Bremen Studienpreis Award for best PhD Thesis is social science and humanities. She has extensive professional experience including at the Columbia Law School, New York; Riga Graduate School of Law; Center for Policy Studies, Budapest; Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, Bremen and European University Institute, Florence. She is author of severa publications on prestigious national and international journals. Her current research work focuses on the regulation of new technologies, use of AI technologies in courts, and methodology for impact assessment. Most recently she scientifically coordinated European Parliament’s public consultation on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence(2017) and published European Added Value Assessment on Liability of Autonomous Vehicles (2018)
Mihalis Kritikos is a Policy Analyst at the European Parliament working as a legal/ethics advisor on Science and Technology issues (STOA/EPRS). He is also a Fellow of the Law Science Technology & Society Programme of the University of Brussels (VUB-LSTS) and a visiting Lecturer at the College of Europe. Mihalis is a legal expert in the fields of EU decision-making, food/environmental law, the responsible governance of science and innovation and the regulatory control of new and emerging risks. He has worked as a Research Programme Manager for the Ethics Review Service of the European Commission, as a Senior Associate in the EU Regulatory and Environment Affairs Department of White and Case (Brussels office), as a Lecturer at several UK Universities and as a Lecturer/Project Leader at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA). He also taught EU Law for several years at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Francesca Episcopo holds a degree in law summa cum laude from the University of Pisa (2014), with a specialization in private law and comparative private law. She earned a MJur (Magister Juris – Master of Laws) at the University of Oxford (2016) and a Ph.D. in private law at the University of Pisa (2019). She also qualified for practicing as a lawyer in Italy (2016). Since 2018 Francesca is a research fellow at the Dirpolis Institute, where she works on various European projects (such as the H2020 project INBOTS), studies (such as SAFENES, a study commissioned by the European Commission), and initiatives on the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence. Her research mainly focuses on liability rules and insurance models for robotics, standardization, product safety certification, data protection and management, robo-ethics, and users’ acceptance of robotics and AI. She was invited to discuss several issues connected to the regulation of robotics and AI at the European Parliament, during the EYE – European Youth Event, as well as before the ITRE Committee, during the EYE Parliamentary Hearings.
