Sofia Palmieri

Healthcare AI Policy and Compliance Officer

Dr. Sofia Palmieri is an FWO postdoctoral fellow within Metamedica research group. Her research is positioned at a crossroads between law, ethics, AI, and healthcare. She investigates the perimeter of regulation for the safe, patient-centred, and evidence-based use of Artificial Intelligence in the medical field. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Law (magna cum laude) from the University of Bologna, she continued her Master’s thesis research at Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of KU Leuven. She spent a period of research both at Paris Nanterre University during her student years and at Nova Law School of Lisbon and University of Bologna as a visiting researcher. She also joined AI4Health – a subsection of AI4Belgium – as a core team member. Recently, she started as co-chair of the Young Scholar Interest Group of the European Association of Health Law and is also currently a visiting researcher at the University of Bologna.