Mateus Correia De Carvalho is a first-year Law researcher from the beautiful Portuguese city of Leiria. He started his academic journey with a Bachelor's degree from the University of NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. His passion for International Law and EU Law was ignited during that time. He discovered his deep interest in these fields through participation in moot courts, winning the National Moot Court of Public International Law and the EUROPA moot court on EU Law. Mateus' commitment to his academic and professional growth led him to intern at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the cabinet of Judge Siniša Rodin. Building on this experience, he then pursued an LLM in European Union Law at Maastricht University.
Before joining the EUI Law Department, Mateus gained rich professional experience. He served as a Law & Tech consultant at a Lisbon-based firm, specialising in the intersection of law with data protection and cybersecurity. Furthermore, he worked as a lecturer in European and Comparative Public Law at Maastricht University. Among his teaching responsibilities, Mateus delivered courses on Comparative and European Constitutional and Administrative Law, Data Protection Law, and European Human Rights. He also coached the winning team at the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition, which delves into cases related to the human rights protection system of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Mateus' choice to join the EUI community was a no-brainer, driven by its vibrant, open, and diverse research environment. His research project brings together European law, human rights protection, and technology. Specifically, Mateus is dedicated to critically examining the European risk-based governance system of artificial intelligence when integrated into social media platforms. Through a human rights and democratic legitimacy perspective, he aims to assess how EU law and the interconnected system of the EU Charter and the European Convention on Human Rights can protect users and, in that light, hold digital platforms accountable for the design and implementation of AI models and policies. His aspiration is to make a substantial contribution to the discussion on the governance of AI and the regulation of its potential pitfalls in relation to users' human rights.
Looking ahead, Mateus hopes to build an academic career and views his EUI PhD as the ideal platform to produce influential research and contribute to the academic discourse on European human rights and their interaction with emerging technologies.
Beyond his legal research work, Mateus enjoys reading poetry, as well as listening and playing different instruments, including the saxophone, guitar, and piano.
We warmly welcome Mateus to the EUI community, and we eagerly look forward to the innovative contribution his research will bring to the realm of platform governance and human rights.