CIPPM is delighted to welcome Professor Cristiani Fontanela as Visiting Professor and Dr Rossana Ducato as Visiting Fellow.

Professor Fontanela and Dr Ducato joined CIPPM in December 2024 and January 2024 respectively. They will both be working at CIPPM until April 2024.

Professor Fontanela researches law and innovation, focusing on industrial property, the university-business relationship, and the role of law in knowledge-based societies. Her research explores legal frameworks around intellectual property, technology transfer, and commercialisation of research.

Dr Ducato is Senior Lecturer in IT Law and Regulation at the School of Law of the University of Aberdeen. She is also affiliated to UCLouvain, where she teaches in the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet course “Clinic on EU Digital Rights, Law, and Design”.  Her research interests are from a comparative perspective and ranges from privacy and data protection to consumer protection, intellectual property law, and law and design, with a special focus on the problems related to new technologies and their impact on society.