Magali Contardi is an Italian qualified lawyer practising in the field of Intellectual Property. She is also working on her PhD research in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and Medical Devices, affiliated to the University of Alicante under the supervision of Prof. Manuel Desantes and Prof. Benedetta Ubertazzi, visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute For Innovation and Competition Law (Munich, Germany, 2018-2019). She is IP lecturer at the Master in Business, Law and Public Manager (GEMP) University of Pisa, and teaching assistant at the Intellectual Property Course, LM in Law, University of Pisa. She is also part of the research group Pa-thos (led by City, University of London together with Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals) focused on IP protection at hospitals.

She holds law degrees from the Università degli Studi di Firenze and the Catholic University of Argentina, as well as a Master in Business Law and Public Manager (Università degli Studi di Pisa), a LLM in Intellectual Property Law (University of Alicante) and a Specialization in Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property (University of Strasbourg).