AI, digitalisation and innovation
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Swann Ashworth is an Associate Research Assistant at CEPS in the GRID UNIT - Cybersecurity@CEPS Initiative, with an interest…
Pierre-Alexandre Balland currently serves as the Chief Data Scientist of the Centre for European Policy Studies and…
Louise Bengtsson is an Associate Research Fellow in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital…
Artur Bogucki serves as an Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy…
Marta Dell'Aquila is a Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Jacob Griffith is a Research Assistant in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Paula Gürtler is Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Raquel Jorge is an Associate Research Fellow in the GRID unit at CEPS. She is…
Andreas Kopp is a Senior Research Fellow at CEPS. He is also a permanent member…
Leonie Kunze is Research Manager in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID) Unit…
Fabian Kuzmic is a Research Assistant in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Nicoleta Kyosovska is a Research Assistant in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Cosima Lenz is an Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Hannah Macdonald is a Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy (GRID) Unit.…
J. Scott Marcus is an economist, engineer and public policy analyst. He is an Associate…
Berta Mizsei is a Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Carlos Navarrete is Head of Web Engineering in the Data Science team at CEPS. Carlos…
Carolina Polito is an Associate Research Assistant at CEPS, in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation,…
Robert is Data Scientist at CEPS. Previously, he worked in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation…
Lorenzo Pupillo is an Associate Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Cybersecurity @CEPS Initiative.…
Andrea Renda is Director of Research at CEPS since 1 November 2023. He also leads…
Francisco Ríos is a Data Scientist in the CEPS Data Science team, with experience in…
Andrea G. Rodríguez is an Associate Research Fellow in the GRID Unit at CEPS. She…
Diana Senczyszyn is Research Manager in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID) Unit…
Katja van der Meer is an Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital…
Hien is an Associate Researcher at the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy Unit (GRID). She…
Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung is a Research Fellow at CEPS. He is also an Associate Researcher…
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