IViR is pleased to introduce our new visiting researchers.
IViR is committed to welcoming PhD candidates, post-doctoral and senior researchers in the field of information law, to exchange ideas and provide an environment where researchers from different places can learn from each other.
Isabella Panico is a Yale Postgraduate Fellow (recipient of the Charles P. Howland and Cohen Public Service Fellowships), undertaking an 11-month project examining how the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) influences digital rights and political expression across Europe. Her research explores how platform moderation impacts fundamental rights, combining visiting researcher positions at IViR and the Institut de Recherche et Innovation with fieldwork in Warsaw and Berlin.
Isabella holds a B.A. in Global Affairs with certificates in Human Rights and Advanced French from Yale and brings experience from across digital rights nonprofits, policy think tanks, and academic research labs.
Through December 2026, she is completing her visiting period at IViR’s DSA Observatory, focusing her research on trusted intermediary networks, user-experience impacts, and the international adaptability of EU tech regulation.
Anaïs Bayrou is a PhD candidate in law at the Digital Law Center of the University of Geneva. She is a qualified lawyer and has work experience in law firms and international organisations including UNDP and UNESCO. She specialises in digital law and cultural heritage/art law with particular interests in IP law, data governance and data sovereignty.
Her PhD examines the challenges of digitizing cultural property in the context of restitution and the rights Indigenous peoples and communites of origin hold over that data.
Anaïs is visiting IViR for a six-weeks period.
Sara Gallone is a PhD Candidate in European Union Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. Her doctoral thesis, “Information Disorder and the EU Value of Democracy: Finding the Right Balance”, explores the EU policy and legal framework for safeguarding European information integrity, focusing on the interaction between EU values and fundamental rights. Admitted to the Italian Bar in May 2025, Sara previously worked as a legal officer at the Court of Turin in civil law matters and completed a postgraduate International Master in European Studies – Policy Advisor and Project Consultant in Brussels.
She holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Turin, which she obtained in July 2021 with highest honours (110/110 summa cum laude) and an honourable mention.
Her recent research and publications focus on the Digital Services Act, the mitigation of systemic risks, media pluralism, and freedom of expression in the digital environment. She is currently undertaking a three-month visiting research period at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.
More information about our visiting researchers program can be found here.