Alessandro BERNES

Personal information

Born in Trieste on 29 October 1990

Speaks Italian and English

Since 1 October 2025, Tenure-Track Researcher (ricercatore a tempo determinato in tenure track, RTT) in Private Law pursuant to Article 24 of Law No. 240/2010 (as amended by Law No. 79/2022) at the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Previously, from 21 June 2021 to 30 September 2025, Fixed-Term Researcher pursuant to Article 24(3)(a) of Law No. 240/2010 (prior to Law No. 79/2022) in Private Law at the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

On 7 March 2025, he was unanimously awarded the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, ASN) as Associate Professor in the academic field 12/A1 (Private Law)

Education and training

• From 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (assegnista di ricerca) in Private Law (IUS/01) at the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Research project: “Tecniche e modelli di trattamento e protezione dei dati personali nella progettazione, esecuzione e diffusione della ricerca scientifica. Analisi giuridico-empirica fra teoria dei diritti fondamentali, situazioni di appartenenza e criteri di contemperamento tra interessi pubblici e privati in conflitto” (scientific supervisor: Prof. Roberto Senigaglia, Ca’ Foscari University)
• In February 2019, he was awarded a PhD (with the Doctor Europaeus label) in Diritto, Mercato e Persona (Law, Market and Person; 31st cycle) at Ca’ Foscari University, after defending his thesis before a Committee chaired by Prof. Giuseppe Vettori (University of Florence). The thesis in Private Law, entitled “Il turismo residenziale fra proprietà e consumo: il modello del condhotel”, was supervised by Prof. Roberto Senigaglia (Ca’ Foscari University) and Prof. Fabio Padovini (University of Trieste)
• From March to June 2018, he was a visiting researcher at the Facultat de Dret of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Palma de Mallorca (Spain), under the supervision of Prof. Pedro Antonio Munar Bernat, Catedràtico de Derecho civil at the UIB
• Since October 2017, he has been qualified to practise as a lawyer (avvocato; 2016 bar examination session)
• From June 2015 to September 2018, he attended the PhD programme in Diritto, Mercato e Persona (31st cycle) at the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University, coordinated by Prof. Carmelita Camardi. Throughout the three years, he held a Ministry scholarship (ranked first in the admission selection)
• In February 2015, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Law (Laurea Magistrale a Ciclo Unico in Giurisprudenza) with full marks cum laude (110/110 e lode) at the University of Trieste (exam average: 29.92/30). The thesis in Civil Law, entitled “Supercondominio e consorzio residenziale”, was supervised by Prof. Fabio Padovini
• In February 2012, he completed a study visit at the Italian Division of the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France)

Academic and institutional positions

• Since 15 October 2026, member of the Executive Board (Giunta) of the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University
• Since 15 October 2026, member of the Research Committee of the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University
• Since 1 October 2025, member of the Board of the Economics Library (Biblioteca di Area Economica, BEC), Ca’ Foscari University
• Since 1 October 2025, member of the Teaching Board of the Master’s Degree in Tourism Management and Sustainability at the Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University. Previously, from 1 October 2021, member of the Teaching Board of the Master’s Degree in Sviluppo Interculturale dei Sistemi Turistici (SIST) at the Department of Economics, where he also served on the Quality Assurance (AQ) Group for AVA-ANVUR purposes
• Since 1 October 2024, member of the Joint Teacher-Student Committee (Commissione Paritetica Docenti Studenti, CPDS) of the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University, representing the Master’s Degree in Sviluppo Interculturale dei Sistemi Turistici (SIST)
• Since 18 May 2023, member of the Steering Committee of VeraLabEx (Laboratory for Experiments in Social Sciences) at the Department of Economics, established under the “Department of Excellence 2017-2022” project VERA (Venice centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for public policies)
• Since 19 July 2022, member of the IT Committee of the Department of Economics
• From 19 November 2021 to 31 December 2023, member of the Ethics Committee of Ca’ Foscari University, as expert in privacy, personal data protection and legal matters
• From 9 March 2021 to 19 November 2021, member of the Data Monitoring Board (DMB) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Previously, since June 2019, he had been an additional non-voting member of the same body

Research activities

• Since 1 October 2025, member of the Ca’ Foscari research unit in the Erasmus+ KA220 HED project “HEALTH-AI: Advancing Healthcare with Adaptive AI Training and a Collaboration Platform” (P.I. Prof. Sevgi Koyuncu Tunç, Çankaya University, Turkey)
• Since 31 July 2024, member of the research group established under an agreement between the Department of Economics of Ca’ Foscari University and Caritas veneziana within the project “Moltiplicare la carità” (8 per mille Project No. 752/2024), funded under a call by Caritas Italiana
• Since 27 May 2024, Affiliated Research Fellow of the Extended Partnership Age-It (Ageing Well in an Ageing Society), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) under the PNRR (project code: PE0000015, CUP: H73C22000900006)
• Since 30 November 2023, Scientific Coordinator/P.I. of the PRIN 2022 PNRR project (Project of Relevant National Interest) “PADS4Health” (Privacy-Aware Data Sharing model for Health data), funded by the MUR under the PNRR, jointly with the University of Turin research unit coordinated by Prof. Shaira Thobani (project code: P2022MSMAW; CUP: H53D23010880001)
• From 1 July 2021 to 30 September 2024, member of the research group on privacy and data protection issues in the H2020 project CITIES (Co-creating resIlient and susTaInable food systEms towards FOOD2030), P.I. Prof. Nicola Camatti (Grant agreement ID: 101000640)
• From 1 July 2021 to 31 May 2024, member of the Ethics Committee of the H2020 project TranspArEEnS (mainstreaming Transparent Assessment of Energy efficiency in Environmental social governance ratingS), P.I. Prof. Monica Billio (Grant agreement ID: 101033869)
• Between 2021 and 2024, he delivered training seminar series on the GDPR and scientific research for the University’s academic and administrative staff, in Italian and English, in agreement with the Ca’ Foscari Data Protection Officer

Teaching in PhD programmes, Master’s programmes and advanced training courses

• Since 2019, he has carried out extensive postgraduate teaching, including at doctoral level (lectures and workshops for the PhD programme in Diritto, Mercato e Persona and for the joint doctoral curriculum of Ca’ Foscari University, as well as contributions at other universities). He has given numerous lectures in first- and second-level Master’s programmes (at Ca’ Foscari Challenge School and elsewhere) and in the Valore PA INPS advanced training courses, focusing mainly on personal data protection, administrative transparency, access to documents, digital identity and electronic documents. He has also held several adjunct teaching appointments pursuant to Article 23 of Law No. 240/2010 (Private Law at the Department of Economics and Introduction to Law in the Foundation Year Programme)

Conference participation and organisation

• He regularly speaks at national and international conferences and seminars, both academic and professionally oriented
• Since 2022, member of the Technical Programme Committee and Call for Papers Committee of the international conference Privacy Symposium, organised by Mandat International, the European Centre for Certification and Privacy (ECCP), the Istituto italiano per la privacy e per la valorizzazione dei dati (IIP) and other partners, including Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (host institution)

Awards and honours

• In May 2026, he received a Special Mention in the annual Premio Eccellenza awarded by the Italian Society of Civil Law Scholars (Società Italiana degli Studiosi del diritto civile, SISDiC) for monographs published in 2024
• In December 2025, he won the annual Prize for the best first monograph in civil law published in 2024, awarded by the Associazione Civilisti Italiani
• In November 2025, he won the annual Prize for High Scientific Merit of the Unione dei Privatisti for the best monographs published in 2024, in the thematic area “beni e forme di appartenenza” (property and forms of ownership)
• In May 2025, he received the Mention of Merit of the annual Prize for scientific excellence for Italian-language civil law monographs, awarded by the Instituto de Derecho Iberoamericano
• Since March 2025, member of the editorial staff of the scientific journal (ANVUR Class A) “Familia – Il diritto della famiglia e delle successioni in Europa” (ISSN 2531-6796)
• Since February 2025, full member of the European Association for Family and Succession Law (EFL)
• Since September 2022, full member of the Unione dei Privatisti (UP)
• Since July 2022, full member of the Società Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile (SISDiC)
• Since June 2021, corresponding member of the Associazione Civilisti Italiani (previously associate member since June 2019)
• Since July 2021, member of the editorial board of the scientific journal (ANVUR Class A) “Rassegna di diritto civile” (ISSN 0393-182X)
• Since May 2021, member of the editorial staff of the scientific journal (ANVUR Class A) “Jus Civile” (ISSN 2281-3918/2421-2563)
• In December 2011, as a member of the University of Trieste’s first-placed team, he won the annual Premio Giuseppe Sperduti, organised by the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI) (topic: “Exclusion of Roma families from the ranking list for the allocation of public housing”)