Emanuela Podda, Ph.D.

Temporary Assignments & Appointments
2025 Reviewer (Temporary Assignment), Journal of Computational Law and Legal Technology, Bon View Publishing Pte Ltd.
2025 Reviewer (Temporary Assignment), Digital Society, Springer Nature
2025 Reviewer (Temporary Assignment), Computer Law & Security Review, Elsevier
2024-2027 Area Editor (Appointment), Data & Policy Journal, Cambridge University Press

Academic Positions
– 2024 ongoing: Research Fellow – Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Protection Techniques and Regulations at Security, Privacy, and Data Protection (SPDP) Research Group led by Prof. Pierangela Samarati at Università degli Studi di Milano – Department of Computer Science – SPDP Lab, Italy
Project: Security and Rights in the Cyberspace SERICS under the MUR NRRP funded by the EU – NextGenerationEU (No. PE00000014)
– January 2024: Visiting Fellow at CRISES Research Group in Security and Privacy led by Prof. Josep Domingo Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili – Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Tarragona, Spain
Project: SoBigData++ European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (No. 871042)
– 2023 – 2024: Research Fellow – Postdoctoral Researcher in Information Systems Engineering at Digital Financial Services and Cross-Organisational Digital Transformations (FINATRAX) Research Group led by Prof. Gilbert Fridgen, Université du Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), Luxembourg
Project: Digital Identities for Luxembourg funded by Luxembourg Ministry of Digitalisation, Luxembourg
– 2019 – 2023: Marie Curie ITN Research Fellow – Doctoral Researcher in Law, Science and Technology (Joint Doctorate), in Rights of Internet of Everything at the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna (Alma Mater Research Center for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence – Alma AI), in co-tutelle with Università di Torino (Department of Law), Université du Luxembourg (Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance – FDEF)
Project: Rights of the Internet of Everything (RIOE), funded under Excellent Science – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Grant agreement (No. 814177)
– 2015: Research Assistant Research Group led by Professor Trecia Wouldes, at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand Project: IDEAL Study, Grant Agreement (No. 1RO1DA014948)

Non Academic Positions
– 2015 – 2019: European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union, Directorate General Research (Research Executive Agency), Directorate General International Cooperation and Development
– 2013 – 2014: Intercultural Experience Canada-Italy, Toronto, Canada
Hansa Language School (Toronto), and Tutorino Italian School (Toronto)
English Language School (Attending) and Italian Language School (Tutoring)
– 2010 – 2013: Trainee Lawyer, Italy
Italian Jurisdiction

Education and Professional Qualifications
– 2019/2023: PhD in Law, Science and Technology (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) funded by the European Commission Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna (Prof. M.Palmirani), in co-tutelle with Università di Torino (Prof. M.Durante), Université du Luxembourg (Prof. M.D.Cole). PhD Thesis: Big Data Analysis Systems in IoE Environments for Managing Privacy and Data Protection: Pseudonymity, De-anonymization and the Right to Be Forgotten
– 2013: State Examination for the Qualification to the Profession of Lawyer, Italy
– 2008/2010: Master of Laws, Faculty of Law, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
– 2005/2008: Bachelor of Laws, Faculty of Law, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy

Research Articles, Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings
– 2025: Transitioning from Portability in the GDPR to Access in the Data Act: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Data Access by Design [CPDP-ai 2025 Conference, Brussels, May 2025], (with N.C. Leschke, P. Samarati, F. Pallas)
– 2025: The Impact of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Data Minimisation Compliance of Digital Identity Wallets. In: Internet Policy Review, 14(3), 1-29., (with P. Hölzmer, A. Amard, J. Sedlmeir, G. Fridgen)
– 2024: Reflections on Decentralization in Decentralized Financial Applications. In: Fridgen, G., Guggenberger, T., Sedlmeir, J., Urbach, N. (eds) Decentralization Technologies. Financial Innovation and Technology. Springer, Cham (with Brennecke, M., Hartwich, E., Rieger, A.)
– 2024: Data Governance and Neutral Intermediation: Legal Properties and Potential Semantic Constraints. In: Jensen, M., Lauradoux, C., Rannenberg, K. (eds) Privacy Technologies and Policy. Annual Privacy Forum 2024 (APF 2024). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14831. Springer, Cham
– 2024: Data Act. in Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Springer, 2024
– 2024: Data Governance Act. in Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Springer, 2024
– 2024: Anonymisation of Personal Data (Legal Perspective). in Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Springer, 2024
– 2024: National Identifiers and Their Use in the Private Sector: Legal Concepts and Privacy Implications. Preliminary legal-tech research undertaken as a member of the FINATRAX Research Group, aimed at setting the legal and regulatory perimeter for a further project on Information Systems Engineering focused on the balance between Push Model and Pull Model for National Identifiers (funded by the Ministry of Digitalisation – Luxembourg)
– 2023: Public Sector Sustainable Energy Scheduler – A Blockchain and IoT Integrated System. 15th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2023, Doha, [Contribution to conference proceedings], (with Lima Baima R., Abetlan Alvarez I., Pavic I.) – 2022: Sistema di Interscambio Dati nelle Zone a Traffico Limitato (ZTL) della Regione Emilia-Romagna (Lepida ScpA, Bologna). Study linked to the stage part of the project RIOE, funded by the MSCA – European Commission
– 2022: Anonimizzazione e Pseudonimizzazione di Sentenze Giudiziarie Informatica Giuridica, 37-64, in La Trasformazione Digitale della Giustizia nel Dialogo tra Discipline, in Diritto e Intelligenza Artificiale, di S. Sapienza, M. Palmirani – Giuffrè, 2023 [Book Chapter] (with Palmirani M.)
– 2021: Anonymization Between Minimization and Erasure: The Perspectives of French and Italian Data Protection Authorities. In: Kd A., Francesconi E., Kotsis G., Tjoa A.M., Khalil I., Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2021, Andrea Kii, Enrico Francesconi, Gabriete Kotsis, A Mintjoa, lsmait Khalit, 2021, LNCS 12926, pp. 103 – 114 (Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective EGOVIS 2021, in International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective 2021, Wien, Virtuat Event, September 27-30,2021) [Book Chapter and Contribution to conference proceedings] (with Vigna F.)
– 2021: Inferring the Meaning of Non-Personal, Anonymised, and Anonymous Data. In V. Rodriguez-Doncet, M. Palmirani, M. Araszkiewicz, P. Casanovas, U. Pagallo U., G. Sartor, AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems XI-XII, Heidelberg, Springer, Cham, 2021, pp.269 – 282 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) [Book Chapter] (with Palmirani M.)
– 2021: Shedding Light on the Legal Approach to Aggregate Data under the GDPR and the FFDR. In UNECE Conference of European Statisticians Expert Meeting on Statistical Data Confidentiality, 1-3 December 2021, Poznan, Poland [Abstract]
– 2021: Data Protection and Rule of Law: A Challenging Perspective. International Conference TILTing Perspectives 2021: TILTING 2021 Regulating in Times of Crisis, Tilburg, May 2021, 19-21 [Abstract]

Seminars, Talks & Teaching Activities
– 2024: Governing Personal Data: a Cross-sectoral and Multi-jurisdictional Matter, ANU-SMU Global Digital Economy Forum, Singapore Management University, Singapore (Talk)
– 2024: Statistical Confidentiality: Legal Considerations for European Official Statistics, Workshop on the Future of Anonymization of the US Decennial Census, Tarragona, Spain (Workshop Presentation)
– 2024: Embedding EU Regulatory Frameworks in (e-Mediated) Data Transactions: A European Data Governance Model, Singapore Management University (SMU), Computational Legal Studies Workshop (Workshop Presentation)
– 2024: National Identification Numbers and Their Use in the Private Sector: a Study of the Legal Framework, Luxembourg Ministry of Digitalisation, Luxembourg (Talk)
– 2024: Interfacing Law with Computer Science: Managing Data in the Light of the Data Governance Act, University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) for Security, Trust and Reliability Research Centre, FDEF x SnT Lecture Series, Luxembourg (Lecture)
– 2024 Law + Technology: Fine-Tuning a New Regulatory Approach to Personal Data Anonymisation, Universitat Rovira i Virgili – Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Tarragona, Spain, (Seminar Presentation)
– 2022 Legal Overview on Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation, Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, (Lecture)

Awards
– 2021 Best PhD Project Award – 7th lnternational Conference on lnformation Systems Security and Privacv (DCISSP/ ICISSP) 2021
– 2020 Best PhD Project Award – 9th lnternational Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DCDATASOFT/ICSOFT) 2020