Consortium

Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at UNITN and the head of the Multimedia and Human Understanding Group in DISI. She is the scientific manager of the Joint Laboratory on Vision and Learning between FBK and DISI. His research interests are mainly in the areas of computer vision, multimedia and human behaviour analysis.

Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at UNITN and the head of the Deep Visual Learning research group at FBK. She is the scientific manager of the Joint Laboratory on Vision and Learning between FBK and DISI. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of computer vision, robotics, machine learning and human behaviour analysis.

Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, UNITN. She is an expert in the study and use of social network analysis in various field of research (from supra national governance political processes to human-computer interaction) and in conjunction with other analytical techniques, such as lexicon-content analysis.

PhD in Comparative Private Law, Associate Professor in Private Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law – UNITN. He teaches, among others, “Comparative ICT Law” and is the author of several articles about issues related to Digital Age Law (Privacy, Copyright, Technology Transfer, etc.).

Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis is the Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR Demokritos and holds a PhD in knowledge representation and information extraction from the Informatics & Telecommunications Department at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

Dr. Georgios Petasis is currently serving as a research associate at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications located in NCSR “Demokritos” in Athens, Greece. With a PhD in Computer Science obtained from the University of Athens, his area of expertise lies in machine learning for natural language processing.

Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations. He works on measuring and modelling collective processes in society, including actors' appropriateness judgments in collective learning, using social network analyses in interdisciplinary collaborations.

The leading founder of the computational social science team at Centre Marc Bloch. Currently research professor in computer science at CNRS, he also held tenured university professorships in sociology, at Sciences Po-Paris and in Toulouse – his research lies at the interface between social and computational sciences.

Research professor at CNRS, member of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), and professor at ENSAE, Paris. At the crossroads of sociology, network science, and artificial intelligence, she is currently studying the place of human labour in the global production networks of artificial intelligence, and social inequalities in digital platform work.

Author of over 75 scientific papers in international conferences and journals, served as project director for 7 research projects and a researcher to 10 other research grants. He holds two patents. His research interests include machine / deep learning and artificial intelligence, with a special focus on automatic speech and speaker recognition, text to speech synthesis and speech emotion recognition.

Researcher in speech processing since 2007 and published over 35 scientific peer-reviewed papers in the fields of: speech synthesis, unsupervised speech segmentation and alignment, speaker disentanglement and generation for speech synthesis, and natural language processing for speech synthesis. AS is the recipient of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013-2014) with the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.

More than ten years of experience in researching and applying machine learning to multi-disciplinary fields, including speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. He has also worked on industrial products, by offering consultancy on data science and machine learning tasks to international companies and start-ups.

A lecturer with the Communications Department of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. She recently finished her PhD studies; her thesis focused on texture feature extraction and classification. Her work experience also includes being a member of several research projects involving image classification problems. Her research interests are in image classification, machine-learning and artificial intelligence domains.

Researcher in the Speech and Dialogue (SpeeD) Research Laboratory at UPB, since 2016. The main direction of interest is artificial intelligence applied in speech technology, especially speech recognition in the Romanian language, but also related fields such as speaker recognition or automatic annotation of audio data. His experience consists of participating as a research assistant in 4 national research projects and he authored over 15 scientific papers.

Postdoctoral researcher in the Speech and Dialogue Research Laboratory Group at UPB. He was involved in 8 national research grants and has a lot of experience in managing Machine-Learning software and hardware integration projects. His research interests are in spoken language technology that cover phonetization, automatic speech recognition and spoken term detection, for Romanian Language. Lately he has applied his machine learning expertise in areas, such as circuit automatic circuit verification using ML-surrogate models.

Research engineer at UPB. He has been involved in projects which tackled speech synthesis, unsupervised sentiment analysis, time-series prediction, and evolutionary algorithms. He is currently working as a research engineer and has authored 3 scientific papers in the last 2 years in the field of machine learning.

A 25-year career as an operational police officer with extensive expertise in counterterrorism. He is a professionally qualified teacher and has designed international multi-agency security exercise programmes, delivering training to Senior Police Commanders from across the world. As a Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, he has held academic positions at leading security research institutes. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of 12 security-related books covering counterterrorism, border security, cybercrime and human trafficking.

A 30-year policing career. He took a leading role in police and security innovation and strategic engagement with Europe. He was a founding director of the UK regional Fraud Forum which aimed to tackle fraud and ID theft by way of education, awareness and improved investigations and was the Police Project Director of the establishment of a Business Crime Reduction Centre.He is a board member of CENTRIC at Sheffield Hallam University and has also led the independent evaluation of projects for DG Home focusing on the prevention of radicalisation.

Professor Emeritus at the University of Leeds and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Integration at the universities of Hull and Leeds, Head of Ethics at SAHER Europe, Visiting Professor at University Libre de Bruxelles; Visiting Chair in International Relations at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna; and previously a lecturer at University of Auckland, New Zealand, Awarded EU Woman of Europe in 1992. Her current research focuses on biometrics, EU ICT and their impact on human security, ethics and society including the interoperability for internal and external security, privacy, border management and cross border information exchange.

Project Manager at the Global Disinformation Index (GDI). In her previous research,
Zoé has been interested in social network analysis and the mapping of online networks related to mis/disinformation, extremism, and online hate. Her main focus has been on the French online ecosystem. She holds a degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Lyon (including a year at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and Georgetown University in Washington DC).

Works on climate disinformation and coordination of projects. Doctoral student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan — in research work deals with the activity of fact-checking, OSInt and conspiracy movements in the context of the knowledge economy and disinformation. Participant in projects, scholarships and summer schools, among others: Digital Methods Initiative, Digital Forensic Research Lab, REDACT project.

Fact-checker working at Demagog since 2020. Mentor at Fact-checking Academy. Currently finishing his master’s degree in cognitive science at Jagiellonian University. Co-host of Metascience Students' Association at JU. Interested in psychology of misinformation and epistemology.

Senior fact-checker and coordinator of social media information verification project in Demagog Association since 2020. As a mentor of the Fact-checking Academy, she conducts classes for young people, students, teachers, and seniors on combating fake news, media literacy and online safety. Her main area of interest are the impact of medical misinformation on society and the growing threats from artificial intelligence connected with disinformation.

Professional fact-checker and a media literacy trainer as a part of Demagog’s education initiative. The concept of his master's thesis focuses on comparing the EU’s and NATO’s approach towards disinformation. He is a regular participant in professional development programs such as Google News Initiative or DFRLab’s Digital Sherlocks.

Fact-checker working for Demagog since November 2022. Graduate of International Relations and Area Studies and International Security and Development at the Jagiellonian University. Co-author of a secondary school textbook entitled "With a shield! How to protect yourself from disinformation". Interested in the issue of disinformation on TikTok.

Chairwoman of the Demagogue Association. Expert and multiple panelist at conferences on new media and issues of disinformation on the web. In Demagog she manages projects, relations with partners and is responsible for financial issues.
Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at Warsaw University and the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at Jagiellonian University.

CTO - Experienced computer engineer leading the backend and frontend development of all Maldita.es tech since its foundation. David will lead the data and technological contributions of Maldita to the project.

Engineer - Computer engineer supporting the technological development of Maldita with experience in AI techniques. Carlos will support the data and technological contributions of Maldita to the project.

Academic Research Unit Coordinator - 20+ years of national/international journalist experience, and now leads Maldita.es efforts to promote research on disinformation. Pablo will head Maldita’s participation in the investigatory elements of the project.

Head of Hoaxes - Experienced fact-checking journalist coordinating Maldita.es’ core debunking unit. Andres will direct ongoing disinformation identification and debunking to contribute to the project data.

COO - Experienced data journalist and project manager who has taken charge of a number of large-scale cross-border projects. Ximena will serve as project manager for Maldita in this project.

Public Policy Coordinator - Public policy expert with over 15 years experience in the journalistic field. He has led a number of influential advocacy efforts in Europe. Carlos will direct Maldita’s inputs to the project regarding ethical and policy considerations.

Founding member of Ellinika Hoaxes. His academic background concerns computer science, and he is the developer of Greek Hoaxes Detector, the first Greek browser extension that notifies against unreliable sources. His fact-checking work specialises in pseudoscience, and he has given relevant presentations at two medical conferences.

The main project manager from EURACTIV for AI4Trust. Josephine will lead the communication and dissemination of the project across multiple channels - coordinating the events, editorial and multimedia content produced by EURACTIV in the remit of the project. She is also responsible for the technical and financial reporting of EURACTIV’s activities.

She joined the EURACTIV Projects team in January 2022. She will assist in ensuring the timely delivery of EURACTIV events as well as of the editorial and multimedia content produced in the framework of this project.

She joined the EURACTIV Projects team in September 2021. She will assist in ensuring the timely delivery of EURACTIV events as well as of the editorial and multimedia content produced in the framework of this project.

Chief editor. He has coordinated SkyTg24's website for a long time. Since 2020, he has been working in the news gathering department. He has overseen fact-checking and data journalism activities, as well as investigations and insights on various topics, such as the coronavirus vaccine and disinformation, bots and social media.

Head of digital at SkyTg24. Prior to this, she worked as a digital editor at La Stampa/Gedi Digital and as the head of development for a local newspaper within the Gedi group. She is also a visiting professor at Luiss University

Journalist and an expert on disinformation and media literacy. Since 2010, he has been a partner of the news agency Effecinque, where has conducted several investigations for SkyTg24 on disinformation campaigns. He is one of the founders of Dataninja where he manages Open the Box, a project for the dissemination of media and data literacy skills in schools. He is an Adjunct Professor of Visual Storytelling at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Head of News Operations at Skytg24, grouping under her umbrella the entire Production of the above-mentioned channel since 2021. She has graduated in linguistic studies she gets a degree in Interpretation and Translation in English and Russian languages. The year after she gets a master’s degree at the San Petersburg's International University. She has been working as Head of the Foreign Tv Production for 20 years in different Tv channels.

Digital product manager in news. He started in RCS Mediagroup and then moved to Sky Italia in 2017, where his focus was mainly on Sky Tg24 website. He currently leads the digital product team.

Passionate technician with twenty years long experience in software engineering, he joined Sky Italia in 2018 as DevOps Engineer and he’s currently working as Principal Software Architect of Editorial Tribe, leading solutions design and implementations.

Senior Manager with in-depth experience in financial control & planning and business transformation projects management. Focused on value generation programs to drive performance, to achieve economic company goals and to successfully lead change management coordinating all the activities. Currently head of Sky Italia Tax and Incentive program managing the funding covering innovation strategies, R&D&I and Industry 4.0 initiatives.

Associated Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Bucharest. As a researcher, she has covered the Romanian media landscape in a series of international studies monitoring media pluralism and independence. Her focus has been on investigating the impact of oligarchic tendencies in media ownership in Romania and how they influence the quality of journalism and media ethics. Additionally, she is a team member of the Newsreel project, specifically involved in the research component focused on Debunking.

Editor-in-chief EURACTIV Romania. She also serves as the Romanian correspondent for the Brussels-based international network EURACTIV, providing valuable insights from a Romanian perspective, drawing upon her 24 years of experience in journalism. She has previously worked as a reporter and editor for news agencies Mediafax and NewsIn. Since joining EURACTIV Romania in July 2015, she has been covering various areas such as current affairs, news, politics, as well as EU and external affairs.

Journalist with eight years of experience in political coverage, he has acquired a comprehensive understanding of the Romanian Parliament, government, ministries, and the intricacies of legislative processes. His reporting concentrates on major political themes, providing a relevant perspective from within the political landscape. Renowned for his captivating storytelling style, he adeptly strikes a balance between making topics appealing and maintaining their significance. His skill set encompasses conducting impactful interviews, enabling him to delve into the viewpoints of influential political figures.

Editor-in-chief of EURACTIV Polska. Managing Director and Chief Editor at EURACTIV Poland, Lecturer at the Faculty of International Affairs of the Warsaw University, Founder at the Global Political Network Foundation, Board Member at the Europe's Media Lab. Alumna of the Fulbright Fellowship, Centre for Leadership, Marie Curie-Skłodowska European Research Fellowship. Expert in
European and Media Affairs.

Project Manager. Twice awarded a Rector's scholarship for the best students.
Experienced event project manager. Prize winner for co-creation of the best pro-student project given by the forum of non-public universities. She gained experience in managing people, social campaigns and projects through participating in student organisations and the student council - she was a Vice-President of the Management Board of Student Council at Collegium Civitas.

Journalist. He has been working in the editorial office of EURACTIV.pl since 2021. He mainly deals with articles on the world of work and trade unions as well as reportages. He is interested in the history of the interwar period and music

Law student at the Jagiellonian University. With Euractiv since March 2022. First as a
participant in the "Journalism for Democracy" project, then as an intern, and finally as an editor. As part of his studies, he completed internships in Lisbon, where he dealt with issues related to European Union law. He is interested in international law, international relations and geopolitics, as well as world cultures and travel.

Jounalist. Interpreter and translator. Passionate about the history and culture of the Teutonic Order, and in contemporary affairs she is mainly interested in NATO affairs and the politics and culture of Austria and the Scandinavian countries.

Latvian journalist, historian and documentalist. Her scientific and journalistic research includes the history and political culture of the Baltic States, changes in the post-Soviet area, historical policy and the functioning of the media. She started her journalistic career at the Polish Radio for Abroad. For several years she has been working on documentary projects, she is a co-author of a documentary about Russia's influence in the Baltic states "Baltic
poker. What is Putin playing at?" (2016) and a film about the social situation of Moldovans during the parliamentary elections in their country entitled "Do not leave, Moldova" (2019).

Journalist. A graduate of English and Romance philology at the University of Warsaw. For almost six years she was associated with the Polish Press Agency, where she dealt with, m.in,
judiciary and politics. She also worked as a publisher in the upday web application and a translator of EU public documents. He is interested in the politics and culture of France and the United States.

Social media and podcasts coordinator. Student of media and cultural communication at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, interested in social issues, European Union affairs, but also in the culture of China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea.

Project Coordinator. She is interested in post-colonialism, migration, radicalisation, revolution, peace processes, biopolitics, and the impact of external interventions on the political, military, and social situation in the MENA region. She has experience both in journalism and project management - as a conference organiser (including the Warsaw Security Forum) and grant implementer.

Project and events coordinator. Before becoming an intern at EURACTIV.pl, she interned at the Court of Justice of the EU. Her research interests include the interplay between EU and national law, migration policy and human rights. She is currently gaining experience in project management and journalistic writing. She is fluent in Polish, English, French and Spanish.

The Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at UCAM. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022). Her research focuses on the effects of the rapid expansion of our digital information environment on workers and workplaces and in our everyday lives. She advises international organisations including UNESCO, the OECD and the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society.

Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. Hugo first came to the UCAM to CRASSH, to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the internet branch of the project Conspiracy and Democracy and then moved to Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) where he was a method fellow and coordinator of the Cambridge Data Schools.