He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari. He obtained the National Scientific Qualification Second Level (Associate Professor) for Sector 12/H3 - IUS/20. He received a Master's Degree in Law from the University of Cagliari and a PhD in "Law and New Technologies" from the University of Bologna. He obtained a second level Master Degree in "Computer Law, theory and technique of legislation" (University of Rome, "Sapienza"), in "Data Protection Officer and Privacy Law" (University of Naples, "Suor Orsola Benincasa") and "Internet of Humans and Things" (University of Rome, "Tor Vergata"). He is Associate Professor of "Legal Informatics" and "Digital Forensics" at the University Master's Degree in Internet Technologies Engineering, and Professor of "Computer Law" at the University Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari. He is Data Protection Officer (DPO), according to Article 37 of EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) at the University of Cagliari and Director of the university laboratory "ICT4Law & Forensics" created at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari. He is a member of the National Association of Professors of Legal Informatics and Computer Law and of the National Inter-University Consortium of Telecommunications. Since 2007, he is "Research Fellow" of the laboratory Networks for Humans (Net4U), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari and since 2017 he is "Affiliated Academic" of the Information Institute. Center for Society Law - Coordinated Research Center on" Information Society Law ", Department of Law "C. Beccaria", University of Milan.
During 2015/2016 he was a research fellow under the MARCO POLO program for the scientific training abroad of young researchers (University of Bologna) and during 2018/2019 he was scientific director of the Young Researchers Mobility Program (MGR) of the University of Cagliari. Since 2019, he participates as Keystaff and as a member of the quality control committee in the three-year "Jean Monnet" project entitled "Data protection of European citizens, data governance and cybersecurity: fundamental rights and personal data processing in the era of big data" - Department of Law, University of Milan.
The main research topics in which he excels are: personal data protection, e-government, e-health, legal protection of software, artificial intelligence and robotics, computer crimes and digital forensics. He has published several monographs, volume contributions and numerous articles in scientific journals on the most diverse topics of legal informatics and computer law. Co-director of the Key Editions series "Information Technologies and New Technologies" and member of the editorial board of the scientific journals "Ciberspazio e Legge" (edited by Prof. Giovanni Ziccardi - publisher Mucchi) and of the "Electronic Journal of Law, Economics, Management" (edited by Prof. Donato A. Limone - Publisher Clioedu).
