Dr. Francesca Mazzi

Francesca Mazzi is a lecturer in artificial intelligence (AI), innovation and the law at Brunel University London. She is an expert in computer and communication law, with a specific focus on AI, intellectual property, data protection, and sustainability. 

From 2020 to 2023 she has been a postdoctoral research fellow in AI and Sustainable Development at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a research associate of the Digital Governance Research Group of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and she was one of the leading researchers of the Oxford Initiative on AI×SDGs.

From 2017 to 2020 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher within the EIPIN- Innovation Society in a double doctorate program between Queen Mary University of London and Maastricht University, with a project on the “patentability of AI generated inventions: a case study on the pharmaceutical industry”.