Rocco Bellanova

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Rocco Bellanova is a Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (large research group Law, Science, Technology & Society-LSTS).

He is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant project DATAUNION – The European Data Union: European Security Integration through Database Interoperability (https://www.dataunion-project.eu). His work sits at the intersection of politics, law, and science and technology studies. He studies how digital data become pivotal elements in the governing of societies. In 2022 he co-edited a special issue on ‘Digital/Sovereignty and European security integration’ in the peer-reviewed journal European Security

(https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2022.2101887).

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