Uroš Ćemalović has over twenty years of post-graduate professional and research experience in EU law, harmonisation of national legislation with the EU acquis, intellectual property law, environmental law, law and technology, public administration, and international affairs, both in the private and public sectors. He earned his Master’s degrees from both the University Paris-Dauphine and the University of Nancy, France, and defended (2010) his PhD thesis at the University of Strasbourg.
In May 2024, the Future of Life Institute (FLI) selected him as a winner of the Call for proposals “Evaluating the Impact of AI on Poverty, Health, Energy and Climate SDGs”, for his project “AI and education on climate change mitigation – from King Midas problem to a golden opportunity?”
From October 2013, he is leading the project “Regulatory and Ethical Evaluation of the Outputs of AI-based text-to-image Software Solutions”.
In November 2019, he was awarded with the WIPO’s (World Intellectual Property Organisation) Medal For Creativity for his book “Intellectual Property Law and Digital Transformation – Some Current Issues”.
For academic year 2018/2019, he obtained Open Society Institute’s Civil Society Scholar Award for his Project “Intellectual Property Law and its Enforcement: Challenges in the EU Accession Process” and he was senior visiting research fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia (Jean Monnet Chair of European Public Law).
Dr Ćemalović serves or used to serve as a senior legal expert of different international organisations, agencies, foundations and initiatives, such as, among others, UNDP, OSCE, SEECP and Konrad Adenauer Foundation, as well as within various EU-funded initiatives, including EU IPA twinning projects. He was an Erasmus+ visiting professor or guest lecturer at several European universities (LUISS, Rome, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Université catholique de Lille), as well as keynote speaker, visiting fellow or paper presenter at numerous events in different countries.
