Sofia Palmieri

Sofia Palmieri is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. In spring 2027 she will teach AI, Law and Medicine at the Law School as Lecturer on Law.

Her research examines how law can make artificial intelligence in healthcare safe, trustworthy and accountable. She works on the regulation of medical AI and medical devices, the medical standard of care and liability, AI literacy in healthcare organisations, and digital health, including AI companions and digital addiction. Much of her work compares the European Union and the United States. Her scholarship has appeared in JAMA, Health Affairs, the American Journal of Bioethics, npj Health Systems, the European Journal of Health Law and the European Journal of Risk Regulation. She also writes book chapters on the EU AI Act, health robotics and assisted reproduction.

Sofia is Managing Editor of the European Journal of Health Law. She is Vice Chair of the IEEE Standards Association activity Bridging the AI Transparency Gap: A Factsheet Framework for Healthcare Professionals, External Expert Evaluator for the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) and task Force Leader of the Digital Health Literacy Hub for the Nanopoulous Foundation.  She co-founded and chaired the Young Scholars Interest Group of the European Association of Health Law.

Before joining Harvard, she was an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University and Healthcare AI Policy and Compliance Officer at the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i-HD). She holds a Ph.D. in Health Law and Artificial Intelligence from Ghent University and a law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Bologna.