Curriculum Vitae and Publications Francesca Pichierri

Francesca Pichierri is a research associate in the Intellectual Property Law Department at FIZ Karlsruhe. She holds a B.A. in International Relations (summa cum laude) and a M.A. in Diplomacy and Security (summa cum laude and "dignità di stampa" special mention) from the University of Perugia, Italy. Since 2014 she is working on issues related to surveillance, technology, privacy and data protection. She was at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in Finland in 2014 and at the COSIC research group (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography), KU Leuven in 2015. 

Francesca joined FIZ Karlsruhe in early 2016, bringing her interdisciplinary and versatile approach to the team. Her research interests include data protection law, human rights law, security studies, surveillance studies, psychology, cognitive science, affecting computing and predictive analytics.

From September 2020 to the end of 2023, she was involved in the EU-Project ITFLOWS, bringing her expertise on privacy and data protection law in the context of data-driven migration flow prediction.

Previously, Francesca was involved in the STARR project (2016-2019), an H2020 EU project developing a decision support and self-management system for stroke survivors based on predictive models for stroke risks and targeting the self-management of stroke risk factors; she worked in the project to ensure a legal and privacy-friendly approach to the design of the technology.

Apart from academia, Francesca is also a singer-songwriter, vocal coach and poet. 

• T. Gottschalk, F. Pichierri, About Migration Flows and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data: Building the Bridge Between Technical and Legal Approaches to Data Protection, in LREC2022 Proceedings, The Legal and Ethical issues Workshop, 20 June 2022, 27-37.
• F. Pichierri, Surveil to Manipulate in the Name of National Security: State Interference with Citizen Mental Sphere Via the Use of Information and Information Technologies, July 16, 2021, pp. 1-31, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3888396 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3888396.
• F. Boehm, D. Dimitrova, S. von Maltzan, F. Rack, F. Pichierri, Comments to the European Commission’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence – a European Approach to Excellence and Trust, 11 June, 2020, available athttps://www.zar.kit.edu/DATA/veroeffentlichungen/237_AI_consultation2020_FIZ_a06592f.pdf
• T. Tietz, F. Pichierri, M. Koutraki, D. Hallinan, F. Boehm, H. Sack, Digital Zombies - the Reanimation of our Digital Selves, in: Proceedings of Re-Coding Black Mirror Workshop 2018; in Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018 (WWW '18). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 1535-1539. DOI: 10.1145/3184558.3191606 [local copy]
• F. Pichierri, D. Dimitrova, Smart environments in the health context, self-management and data protection in the STARR project, in: International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 2018

• "About Migration Flows and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data: Building the Bridge Between Technical and Legal Approaches to Data Protection", LEGAL 2022, Marseilles – with Thilo Gottschalk
• "About Migration Flows and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data: Building the Bridge Between Technical and Legal Approaches to Data Protection", LEGAL 2022, Marseilles – with Thilo Gottschalk
• “Emotion surveillance for security purposes and the risk of manipulative uses of emotion insights” – Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar – Queen´s University, Kingston, Ontario – 2017
• “Smart environments in the health context, self-management and data protection in the STARR project” – Bileta conference 2017 – with Diana Dimitrova
• “Healthcare applications, smart homes and the purpose limitation principle” – Bileta conference 2018 – with Diana Dimitrova
• “Online manipulative practices and the danger to democracy: opening a discussion on regulation” – Bileta conference 2019
• “Online Manipulative Practices: New Technologies and Fundamental Rights Infringements“ - KIT Seminar 2020 –  with Prof. Boehm