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Dr Riccardo Vecellio Segate is a sociolegal scholar of technology, a public international lawyer, and an intellectual property consultant, currently a PostDoc in epistemic injustice at the University of Groningen. He previously worked as a PostDoc on the largest UKRI/EPSRC interdisciplinary grant on smart collaborative robots (within the Smart Cobotics Centre), and as a Research Associate in biometrics at The Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institute for data science and AI). He holds a PgDip in European and Global Governance from the University of Bristol, an LLM in Public International Law from Utrecht University, and a PhD in International Law from the University of Macau. He has been a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University (Beijing), The University of Hong Kong, and UC Berkeley, and practiced in technology policy and regulation for several years, including at the European Commission. He is also studying Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and serves on IEEE technical standardisation committees.