Research

My current research focuses on uncertainty as a challenge for regulators and how legal frameworks shape regulatory responses to it. Due to my background, I have explored these questions primarily in the domain of digital regulation, but I believe they touch in foundational issues that matter for the role of regulation in dealing with other pressing societal questions such as climate change.

To advance our understanding of those questions, my work advances along three dimensions. 

In the theoretical dimension, I deal with whether the concepts we use to make sense of and address uncertainty are fit for purpose. Drawing from Midgley's plumbing approach, my work maps tensions and contradictions in current framings, as well as underexplored differences, and proposes ways to refine our framings of questions such as how to deal with technological concepts in the law.

In the methodological dimension, I propose a need to focus on the practices of regulators and regulated actors as they manage uncertainty, looking at the possibilities and limitations of structural controls in addressing known gaps in decision-level legal oversight of decisions made under (deep) uncertainty.

In the doctrinal dimension, I deploy the theoretical and methodological insights mentioned above to examine the legal framework governing artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in the EU, as well as the interplay between the approaches adopted in the EU and those adopted in other jurisdictions.

• Technical transparency and trust in AI regulation (last revised 27 August 2026).

• Governing Quantum Computing: The Limits of Anticipatory Regulation (last revised 06 July 2026).

• Two learning pathologies in the law of innovation (last revised 13 February 2026).

• Two Dogmas of Technology-Neutral Regulation (last revised 14 October 2024).