Mateus Correia de Carvalho is a PhD Researcher in Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, under the supervision of Professor Deirdre Curtin.

In his doctoral project, he analyses the role and influence of different civil society actors in EU AI risk regulation, using an interdisciplinary research method that combines legal analysis with political theory and philosophy. Namely, Mateus seeks to understand to what extent classic administrative law and other procedures of legal implementation can be used and framed as spaces of contestation for how AI systemic risks are managed in EU law (with a special emphasis on the Digital Services Act and AI Act).

Mateus holds a Bachelor in Law from NOVA School of Law and a LL.M in European Union Law from Maastricht University. Between these studies and his current position at the EUI, Mateus was, from 2021 to 2023, a Lecturer of European and Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, where he has taught in courses such as European Administrative Law, Comparative Administrative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, European Human Rights, European and National Constitutional Law, European Human Rights, and Data Protection Law.

In parallel with his doctoral position, Mateus is one of the conveners of the EUI research group ‘Digital Public Sphere Working Group’, and an editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies. He has been a teaching assistant to Prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro in the Master course ‘Non-State Forms of Governance’ at the EUI School of Transnational Governance. He has also taught in the EUI researcher-led seminar ‘Introduction to AI & Ethics”.

At NOVA PEARL, Mateus is one of the scientific coordinators, seeking to contribute to the research centre’s mission of understanding and scrutinising the enforcement and regulation of digital services and AI systems under EU and national administrative law.