Valentina Dalla Giovanna is a legal researcher at FARI – AI for the Common Good (VUB-ULB), where she works on applied research projects aimed at making the law clearer and more accessible in the context of rapidly evolving technologies and practices. Her research examines how technological innovation is transforming legal practice and raising new societal challenges, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence regulation, including the EU AI Act, as well as data law and medical law.

Before joining FARI, Valentina was a member of the Smart Law Hub, under the direction of Professor Gregory Lewkowicz. She contributed to several European research initiatives, including LASO, which develops tools to assess the risks associated with integrating AI systems into hospital environments, and the Brain Data Hub, a collaborative project promoting data altruism in mental health and neuroscience.

Alongside her work at FARI, Valentina is pursuing a PhD within the DIKE (DIgitalisation and aCCEss to justice) Research Group at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research explores digital law, access to law, legal complexity and digital mediation. She also contributes to several EU-funded research projects focusing on legal issues related to digital transformation and access to justice.

Valentina has been practising as a lawyer at the Brussels Bar since 2019, enabling her to bridge academic research and legal practice while grounding her work in real-world legal challenges. Fluent in Italian, French, English and German, with a good passive knowledge of Dutch, she brings a multicultural perspective to her work at the intersection of law, technology and society.