Carlotta Buttaboni
Carlotta Buttaboni is a PhD researcher within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network HARNESS. She is jointly affiliated with the Rathenau Instituut, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where she is enrolled as a doctoral candidate. Her research focuses on the multi-level governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the electricity sector, with particular attention to its governance, ethical, legal, and social implications (GELSI).
Training and Career
Carlotta holds a five-year integrated master's degree in law (combined LL.B./LL.M. equivalent) from the University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum (Italy). Prior to her doctoral project, she worked as Postgraduate Research Associate at the Digital Ethics Center (DEC), Yale University (USA), where she published on digital platform regulation, property law in the digital domain, and AI regulation. She is also former Editor in Chief, and current editorial advisor, of the University of Bologna Law Review, an internationally recognized diamond open access and student-run law journal owned by the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna. Within her PhD trajectory, she will critically assess the regulation and governance of AI solutions in decentralized energy systems, exploring their intersection with European law, AI digital regulation, energy policy, and ethical frameworks.