Andrea is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics of the University of Basel. He has a background both in normative legal research, and also in the social sciences (PhD in biomedical ethics). His expertise is in the analysis of how legal rules and policies in the biomedical field are developed and justified by lawmakers, and on how they are implemented and interpreted by stakeholders (e.g. clinicians). Andrea has several years of experience in the field of medically assisted reproduction, including empirical and legal research on the functioning, regulation and use of reproductive technologies. He was involved in a project investigating the policies around the use of medically assisted reproduction for older aspiring parents, and is the PI of a project analysing the legalisation of egg donation in Switzerland (funded by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences). Moreover, he was recently awarded a research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the Ambizione funding scheme.

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Education

• Master’s Degree “European and Transnational Law”, Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Italy (2018)
• PhD (Dr.sc. med.) in Biomedical ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2021

Work and research experience (selection)

• SNF Ambizione Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Zürich, CH (From July 2026)
• Postdoc, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland (2021-2026)
• Research Associate, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023-2024)