Team.

Stefano Montaldo (PhD, Milan Bicocca) is Associate Professor of EU Law at the University of Turin. He is the principal investigator of the IPAS-EU project and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Civic Engagement, Rights and Remedies in EU law. He has coordinated various EU and national research projects focusing on the EU area of freedom, security and justice. He serves on the board of the open-access online journal European Papers and heads the Master's Programme in European Legal Studies at the University of Turin. He has published extensively on EU citizenship, migration and asylum law; police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters; civic engagement tools and the protection and promotion of EU values.

Andrea Cabiale After graduating in Turin, Andrea Cabiale obtained a PhD in Criminal Sciences at the University of Trieste.

He is currently Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Law of the University of Turin, where he teaches Italian Criminal Procedure, European Criminal Procedure, Criminal Proceedings and Psychological Sciences.

His scientific interests are focused, among others, on European criminal procedure, criminal evidence and appeal remedies.

Anna Costantini is currently Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Turin, where she teaches Principles of Criminal Law and Italian Criminal Law. She holds a PhD in Law and Institutions from the University of Turin. 

She spent some research periods at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany, and in 2025 was a visiting researcher at the Institute for International and Comparative Criminal Law in Cologne, Germany.

Her main research interests include confiscation measures, criminal sanctions, disinformation and criminal liability for omissions.

Serena Quattrocolo Full Professor of Italian and European Criminal Procedure at the University of Turin. Previously, dean of the Law School at the University of Piemonte orientale.

Former academic co-director (AY 2016-17), of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS), London. Visiting scholar at King’s College, London (AY 2016-17) and visiting professor at FGV Direito, Sao Paulo, Brasil (AY 2015-16). Braudel Fellow 2022 at the European University Institute; Stipendiantin at the Max Planck Institute for International and comparative criminal law, Freiburg i.B., Germany, 2014. Member of the Committee for the reform of criminal justice, at the Italian Ministry of Justice, (2021-22).

Principal investigator of: Jean Monnet Project PreCrim (2020), Jean Monnet Module EuDICRI (2022), EUAF NET4FEU (2024). Major research fields: AI and criminal proceedings; in absentia trials, European criminal procedure.

Last book: S. Quattrocolo, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Models and Criminal Proceedings. A Framework for a European Discussion, Springer, 2020.

Chloé Briere is professor of EU law at the Centre for European Law and an affiliated member of the IEE (Université libre de Bruxelles). Since 2019, she has been holding the chair in European law, teaching, researching and supervising students in the Faculty of Law and Criminology. She was director of the Centre for European Law between September 2020 and September 2023. She is since September 2023 Director of the Institute for European Studies (IEE-ULB).

Her research interests cover various aspects on EU law, such as EU Criminal Law, EU external relations law, EU migration law and the free movement of persons. In the field of EU criminal law, she has notably worked on judicial cooperation, the protection of EU financial interests or the role of the EU in combating trafficking in human beings and impunity for core international crimes. Her doctoral research focused on the promotion of the EU legal framework against trafficking in human beings and its promotion outside the EU’s borders. Her work has been published as a monograph in 2021 (The external dimension of the EU’s policy against trafficking in human beings, Hart Publishing).

Mona Giacometti is a Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a Visiting Professor at UCLouvain. She teaches courses in criminal procedure, special criminal law, and law and technology governance. Her research focuses on European and Belgian criminal law, with particular attention to cyberviolence and the use of new technologies. Alongside her academic work, she also practices as a lawyer at the Brussels Bar.

Damien Scalia is a professor of law at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a visiting professor (in international criminal law) at the University of Lausanne. After completing a joint PhD in criminal law at the University of Geneva and the University of Paris-Nanterre, he conducted extensive research in international criminal law at various research centers, not. as visiting scholar at Columbia Law School (New York, USA) and at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (Oxford University – UK). His main research focuses on criminal justice at the international level. In this context, for the past 15 years, he has been meeting with individuals tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in order to analyze the functioning of international criminal justice. He was co-founder and (co-)director of the Center for Research in Criminal Law and the Center for Research on the Experience of War and is co-director of the Maison des sciences humaines.

Anne Weyembergh is Professor at the ULB (Faculty of Law and Institute for European Studies). Her main research and teaching activities relate to EU criminal law, and criminal law in other legal orders (national and international law).  

She has chaired the Institute of European Studies, directed the Centre for European Law and held the position of Vice-Dean for International Relations at the Faculty of Law and Criminology. She is now Vice-Rector for External Relations and Cooperation.

Together with Serge de Biolley, she founded the European Criminal Law Academic  Network (ECLAN) in 2004. She has been co-coordinating the Network (with Valsamis Mitsilegas and Katalin Ligeti) since then. Anne Weyembergh has been the Chief Editor of the New Journal of European Criminal Law (with Paul De Hert, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Scott Crosby and Holger Matt) since May 2014. She has also been General Editor of the EU Criminal Law series of Hart Publishing (with Valsamis Mitsilegas and Katalin Ligeti) since 2014. 

José Brandariz is a professor of criminal law and criminology at the University of A Coruña, Spain, and a research adjunct professor at the Department of Law and Legal Studies of Carleton University, Canada. He was a member of the executive board of the European Society of Criminology (2016-2019) and an associate editor of the European Journal of Criminology (2018-2022). In addition, Prof Brandariz chaired the European Criminology Oral History project of the European Society of Criminology from 2018 to 2025. Having been particularly active in European and international research projects, he is also the current co-editor of the Routledge series in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship.

Patricia Faraldo is a former Marie Curie and EURIAS fellow, Patricia Faraldo Cabana is full professor of criminal law at the University of A Coruña, where she leads a research group of almost 30 people. She has published ten books, one of them in English, and more than 200 book chapters and journal articles in four languages, with topics ranging from mutual recognition in criminal matters to sexual offences, ethical risks of AI or the fight against trafficking in cultural goods.

Xulio Ferreiro Baamonde is an Associate Professor of Procedural Law at the Universidade da Coruña (UDC), where he has taught since 2012. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Law since 2021 and was accredited as Full Professor in 2025. He has also served as judge at the Provincial Courts of A Coruña and Lugo, and was Mayor of A Coruña from 2015 to 2019. He has carried out research stays at institutions such as Saint Louis University (Missouri, USA), the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg (Germany), the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium), Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), the University of Michigan (USA), and UCLA (USA). He has authored over 150 academic publications and conference papers. 

Ana Neira is a Professor of Procedural Law at the University of A Coruña (Spain) and holds a PhD in Law (2016). With over 15 months of international research stays at prestigious institutions in the USA, Italy, and Chile, her research focuses on corporate criminal liability, AI in the justice system, and European criminal cooperation. She has authored two monographs and over 90 scientific publications in indexed journals and top-tier publishers such as Springer and Brill. She has participated in 12 competitive research projects and has served on the Executive Board of the Spanish Section of the AIDP since 2019. Currently, she combines her academic work with the directorship of her university's Gender Equality Office.

Sivia Rodriguez-López is a postdoctoral researcher in Criminal Law, funded by the Xunta de Galicia (ref. ED481B), at the University of A Coruna (Spain). Her research interests focus on European criminal Law, human trafficking, AI in the criminal justice system, and digital gender-based violence. She has developed a strong academic track record through publications in leading international journals and participation in competitive research projects. ORCID

Caroline Peloso is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lyon. She holds a PhD in Private Law and Criminal Sciences (joint supervision). Her research focuses on criminal procedural law and European judicial cooperation, particularly on issues concerning the protection of procedural guarantees in criminal proceedings, the use of technology in the gathering and assessment of evidence, and confiscation measures.

Manon Viglino hold a PhD in Private Law and Criminal Sciences and serve as an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lyon. Her research focuses on the evolving challenges that digital technologies pose to criminal law and criminal procedure. She’s particularly interested in issues related to online child exploitation, the use of artificial intelligence in criminal justice, and the impact of technological developments on victims’ rights.