Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8973-8436 

JRC profile (former): https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/anna-berti-suman_en

Luiss web: https://giurisprudenza.luiss.it/page/anna-berti-suman/ 

Anna is a researcher & activist on civic environmental monitoring. She enthusiastically leads the 'Sensing for Justice' project on the potential of civic evidence to demonstrate environmental harms in court. The project was hosted at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, with the support of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship and - as a pilot - of the Rubicon grant by the Dutch Research Council. Currently, Anna is research fellow at Luiss University, School of Law, Rome, in collaboration with 'LabGov - Laboratory for the Governance of the City as a Commons', with the mission to explore the law as an enabling tool for accelerating responses to climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity. She is also a qualified lawyer under the Bar Association of Rome with work experience on environmental and climate justice cases spanning from South America to Northern Europe. At present, she follows cases at Systasis - Study Centre for the Management of Environmental Conflicts, Milan. Anna received her PhD in the Netherlands from the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, with the 'Sensing the Risk' project, investigating how civic monitoring can influence environmental risk governance, especially after disasters. Anna has a background in Law from the University of Bologna and Transnational Law from the University of Geneva. She is passionate about science engagement, art-based research methods and slow ethnography.

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5677-5209 

Scientific Supervisor: Sven Schade

Sven Schade is Scientific/Technical Project Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, where he works on public sector innovation and digital transformations. He acts as leading expert for the European arena on the use of Citizen Science for policy and other institutional purposes. Sven Schade has (co-)authored more than 100 publications in relevant fields. Among other, Sven Schade co-chairs the Advisory Board Member of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), and is the co-chair of the Citizen Science COST Action 15212 to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe, Working Group 3 "Improve society-science-policy interface". Sven Schade has also curated numerous training programmes, such as, the Vespucci Training School on Digital Transformations in Citizen Science and Social Innovation.