MY name is Alessandro Bruni, Associate Legal Researcher of the KU Leuven Interdisciplinary Centre for Information Technology and Intellectual Property (CiTiP) Academic research center specialized in legal and ethical aspects of IT technology

MY name is Alessandro Bruni, Associate Legal Researcher of the KU Leuven Interdisciplinary Centre for Information Technology and Intellectual Property (CiTiP) Academic research center specialized in legal and ethical aspects of IT technology

The KU Leuven Interdisciplinary Centre for Information Technology and Intellectual Property (CiTiP) has currently a staff of over 80 researchers specialized in legal and ethical aspects of IT technology and innovation. CiTiP is among the founding members of the Leuven Center on Information and Communication Technology (LICT) and of the Flemish digital research and incubation center iMinds that recently merged with Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. we have a solid track record as an ethical-legal partner in large international and interdisciplinary research projects. Our center is globally renowned for its expertise in the areas of data protection, information security law, media and communications law, information rights management. Most notably, CiTiP has gained extensive expertise in the area of law enforcement, cybersecurity policy and artificial intelligence. CiTiP is currently involved in more than 30 research projects, funded by the
EU (Horizon 2020), the Belgian Research Council, FWO, and various other parties. Since 2019 CiTiP is involved with a leading role in the strategic research program Cybersecurity Initiative Flanders (CIF) as well as the Centre for Data and Society on Artificial Intelligence. CiTiP’s senior staff teaches IT and IP Law at KU Leuven’s campuses in Leuven and Brussels, both at undergraduate and graduate levels. The centre provides a complete trilingual graduate program on IP and IT Law in Brussels, which attracts students from all over the world. During its existence of 30 years, CiTiP has gathered a significant expertise at the crossroads of ethics, law and IT. CiTiP’s research is characterised by its intra- and inter-disciplinary approach. It aims at contributing
to a better and more efficient regulatory and policy framework for information & communication technologies
and innovative technologies in general.