Prof. Dr. Thomas Margoni is Research Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, and a member of the Board of Directors at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP). His research concentrates on the relationship among law, data and technology. Currently, Thomas has been focusing on the changes in the creation, access, transformation, and distribution of knowledge and information brought by technologies like the Internet and AI. Examples of relevant research projects include the Data Spaces Support Centre, a Digital Europe funded project dedicated to explore the needs of data space initiatives, define common requirements and establish best practices, where Thomas is KUL PI for the legal aspects; reCreating Europe, the EU H2020 project developing an integrated policy approach to copyright in the EU digital single market, where Thomas leads the task on AI and data ownership; Skills4EOSC an Horizon Europe funded project to accelerate the upskilling of European researchers and data professionals in the field of Open Science; DAFNE+ the Horizon Europe project focused on the use of blockchain technologies to define novel revenue and business models for the cultural and creative industries; ZOOOM a Horizon Europe CSA focused on awareness raising in the field of IP generation and management in collaborative innovation ecosystems, among others.
