Institutional webpage: https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/anna-berti-suman_en 

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

CV, Publications, Talks: https://tinyurl.com/2d5y5m2h 

Anna Berti Suman is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. She is principal researcher of the project 'Sensing for Justice' aimed at exploring the potential of civic monitoring as a source of evidence for environmental litigation and as a tool to foster environmental mediation. She is Qualified Barrister, admitted to the Bar of Rome, following climate and environmental law cases at the firm 'Dini-Saltalamacchia' and at 'Systasis - Study Centre for the Prevention and Management of Environmental Conflicts', Milan. Anna obtained her PhD in 2020 after a four-year trajectory at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, The Netherlands. Her PhD project aimed at investigating how civic monitoring influences the governance of environmental health risk and how the practice can be integrated within institutional models of risk governance. Anna has a background in Law from the University of Bologna and Transnational Law from the University of Geneva. She has work and research experience in health law and technology (UK), environmental litigation (Italy, The Netherlands, Ecuador) and water law (Chile).

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.