Our Research Consortium

MEIOR represents a consortium of five partner universities:

KU Leuven (Belgium), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), Uniwersytet Gdański (Poland), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and Uppsala Universitet (Sweden)

The consortium reunites jurisdictions that are representative of four different geographical areas of Europe: North, East, West and South. They have been chosen to reflect not only different souls of the EU, but also different criminal procedural traditions.

The participating researchers are experienced scholars of European criminal procedure and experts in the field of judicial cooperation in criminal matters. They have worked together previously and form a well-coordinated research group.

The Team

Prof. Michele Panzavolta

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor of Criminal Law

Michele Panzavolta is Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven. He has experience as a practicing criminal lawyer in Italy. He specialises in European and international criminal law and in comparative studies on criminal law and procedure. His research interests are in intelligence-related topics, financial crime and asset recovery, digital evidence and, more generally, the protection of individual rights in criminal matters.

michele.panzavolta@kuleuven.be

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Dr. Anna Mosna

Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Anna Mosna is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven. She holds a PhD from the University of Luxembourg, where she defended a doctoral thesis on ‘Art Laundering’, focusing on cultural property crime and laundering phenomena within the art market. Her research interests further lie in topics of judicial cooperation in criminal matters, including cross-border evidence gathering and defence rights protection.

anna.mosna@kuleuven.be

Dr. Pieter Tersago

Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Pieter Tersago is Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, LINC. After obtaining his Phd in the field of criminal procedure law (a legal-empirical study on how criminal judges value suspect statements), he was active as a criminal defence lawyer. He is currently working as a legal counsel at the city of Antwerp. His academic expertise lies in judicial decision-making in criminal justice, evidence and defence rights in criminal procedures.

pieter.tersago@kuleuven.be

Prof. Marcello Daniele

Team Leader - Senior Researcher

Full Professor of Criminal Law

Marcello Daniele graduated in Law at the University of Turin, and completed his PhD at the University of Bologna. He is currently full professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Padua. He wrote books and articles about Law of Evidence, European Criminal Procedure, Preliminary Hearing and Habeas Corpus.

marcello.daniele@unipd.it

Dr. Anna Caligaris

Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Anna Caligaris graduated in Law at the University of Turin, discussing a thesis entitled 'Reduce to the bare minimum the recourse to pre-trial detention in prison. The notice of the European Court of Human Rights: causes and possible remedies'. Then, she completed her PhD, discussing a thesis entitled 'The function of nomofilachia of the Court of Cassation between the defence of objective law and the protection of individual rights'. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Padua.

anna.caligaris@unipd.it

Prof. Sławomir Steinborn

Team Leader - Senior Researcher

Full Professor of Criminal and Procedural Law

Sławomir Steinborn is professor of Criminal Procedure and European Criminal Law at the University of Gdansk (Poland); fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2008-2009) and Max Planck Society (2015) in Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany); member of the Commission of the Criminal Law Codification by the Polish Ministry of Justice (2013-2015); since 2016 he serves as a judge at Court of Appeal in Gdansk.

slawomir.steinborn@prawo.ug.edu.pl

Dawid Świeczkowski

Junior Researcher

Dawid Świeczkowski is a graduate of law at the University of Gdansk and the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Cracow (Poland); former assistant of judge at the Court of Appeal in Gdansk. After passing a judicial exam, he started working as a legal counsel. Author of articles mainly concerning the international criminal proceedings.

dawid.swieczkowski@prawo.ug.edu.pl

Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Lorena Bachmaier Winter

Team Leader - Senior Researcher

Full Professor of Procedural Law

Lorena Bachmaier Winter is Full Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid, in justice systems and procedure. Degree in Political Sciences (International Relations) 1989. Law degree in 1989 and PHD in Law in 1994. She has written extensively in the area of her expertise and has been visiting professor in many foreign institutes and universities including the Max-Planck-Institute or the Universities of Berkeley, Harvard and Stanford (USA). She also works regularly as an international legal expert for the Council of Europe and other international organizations as legal consultant. She is member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on European Criminal Law policy.

lorenab@der.ucm.es