Artur Rocha

Artur Rocha is a Coordinating Researcher at INESC TEC and co-coordinator of its HumanISE centre. He holds a PhD in Informatics Engineering and has led research on collaborative digital platforms, privacy-preserving computing and data-intensive infrastructures. His work focuses on trustworthy, human-centred digital solutions, with particular attention to how data governance, interoperability, and FAIR data principles translate into practice in federated infrastructures. He has participated in numerous European research projects involving data spaces and the sharing of sensitive data across institutional and national boundaries, acting as technical coordinator in several of them, in domains ranging from health and the life sciences to marine and environmental data. His current interests include sovereign data infrastructures and the governance of AI built on shared data.