Organizing Team

Annalisa Pelizza is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Principle Investigator of Processing Citizenship. Before joining Bologna, she was Associate Professor at the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department, University of Twente, where she is now Visiting Professor.

Her interests are:

• Sociotechnical aspects of data infrastructures, including ontologies and interoperability
• Ethnographic, digital and mixed methods
• Governance of and by technology
• Data infrastructures, populations, institutions
• Network cultures

She has been the recipient of international and European Commission excellence science grants and currently leads the Processing Citizenship research group, funded by the European Research Council.

Pelizza was elected member of the EASST Council 2019-2022), is member of the Editorial Board of Science, Technology and Human Values and vicepresident of STS Italia. She acts as reviewer for several science agencies and international journals in the STS, policy, communication, data science and information systems fields. She held visiting fellowships in U.S., Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Chiara Loschi is currently postdoctoral fellow in the ERC Processing Citizenship project team, at the Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna.
From 2018 to 2020 she held a position as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Institut Für Politikwissenschaft, in the frame of an FWF-funded project led by Dr. Peter Slominski, “The EU Border Protection Regime: The Cooperation between EU Agencies and its Consequences for Fundamental Rights”. From 2017 to 2018, she was based in Tunis as CNRS postdoc researcher in the frame of an EU HORIZON2020 project, “EUNPACK. Good intention mixed results” (grant N. 693337), on EU crisis response in Libya. She holds a MA in Cultural anthropology with a thesis focusing on the memory of colonial occupation in Libya and the dynamics of former settlers’ mobilizations in modern Italy. She has been based in Tunisia for several years between 2013 and 2018, and she has conducted fieldwork in Tripoli and west Libya in 2010.
Her research lies at the intersection of political science and sociology, science and technology studies, EU studies, with an ethnographic approach, with a focus on governance by and of data infrastructures, and how they impact national and supranational institutions.

Paul Trauttmansdorff is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Processing Citizenship project team, at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna. Paul completed his PhD in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. His work has investigated the construction and maintenance of databases in the EU border regime. In his research he is interested in the contestations and controversies around techno-scientific innovation, the development of infrastructure, and the transformations of border and migration regimes. He is intrigued by questions around the social, political, and ethical implications of sociotechnical transformations and the infrastructures that undergird and sustain them.

Wouter Van Rossem holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Computer Science, and a Master of Science in Management, all from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. He also has 5 years of professional experience. After his university studies he worked as an IT consultant at a multinational consultancy firm, and later as a software engineer on a streaming television platform in Brussels. Before starting his PhD at the University of Twente he finished a traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy at their Text and Data Mining unit.

Lorenzo Olivieri joined the Processing Citizenship project in 2019 as a PhD candidate. The goal of his research is to enquire what are the modalities of resistance exerted by migrants in their encounters with information technologies for migration management. More specifically, he focuses on the friction between border-crossers’ temporalities of resistance and the temporalities of control and discipline embedded into the European migration management. To enquire these issues, Lorenzo relies on narrative interviews with asylum seekers, lawyers and cultural mediators. In addition to this, he has attempted to develop a ‘serious game’ which problematizes some of the power relations and knowledge asymmetries that characterize migration management.