Simone Casiraghi

Simone is a post-doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He obtained a PhD in law in 2024, with a thesis focusing on the intersection of law and institutionalized ethics in the context of data protection and AI, combining a traditional legal analysis with STS perspectives and scrutinizing the discourses and institutions underpinning EU initiatives on AI ethics, including policy, regulation, and industry-driven standardization efforts. On this topic, he was involved in the VUB’s ALTEP-DP research program (2019-2024), which inquired into the continuously evolving articulations of law, technology, ethics, and politics, searching for a better understanding of the boundaries that separate them, and that they create and sustain.

He is also a member of the Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments (d.pia.lab) at LSTS and Treasurer of the Belgian Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (B-IVR). His research interests are in philosophy of technology, the intersection between law and Science and Technology Studies (STS), legal philosophy and impact assessments.