Alessandro Monaco

• Alessandro Monaco, “Design thinking principles in the regulation of novel foods in the European Union and Singapore: A comparison” Accepted for publication in: European Business Law Review (2025)
• Alessandro Monaco, “The role of heuristics and biases in the choice of risk triggers for novel foods and GMOs in the European Union” European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1-11 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2024.48
• Alessandro Monaco, Johannes Kotz, Mirna Al Masri, Anila Allmeta, Kai Purnhagen and Laura M. König, “Consumers’ perception of novel foods and the impact of heuristics and biases: A systematic review” Appetite, 196, 107285 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107285
• Tilman Reinhardt and Alessandro Monaco, “How Innovation-Friendly is the EU Novel Food Regulation? The Case of Cellular Agriculture” Under review in: Future Foods. Available as preprint in SSRN Electronic Journal (2024) https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4892706
• Alessandro Monaco, “Data Protection Under the Novel Food Regulation: Valuable Instrument or Barrier to Innovation? Insights from the Insect Sector” European Food and Feed Law Review, 18, 172-178 (2023) https://effl.lexxion.eu/article/EFFL/2023/3/7
• Alexandra Molitorisová, Alessandro Monaco, “Innovating food law with mycelium,” In: Markus Möstl, Kai Purnhagen (Eds.): Die Regulierung von Innovationen im Lebensmittelsektor: Produkte, Probleme, Perspektiven. (2023)
• Kai Purnhagen, Yasmine Ambrogio, Detlef Bartsch, Dennis Eriksson, Petra Jorasch, Jens Kahrmann, Maximilian Kardung, Alexandra Molitorisová, Alessandro Monaco, Amrit Nanda, Jörg Romeis, Nils Rostoks, Katharina Unkel and Xenia Schneider, “Options for Regulating New Genomic Techniques for Plants in the European Union” Nature Plants, 9, 1958–1961 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01570-2
• Alessandro Monaco and Kai Purnhagen, “Risk Triggers as Innovation Triggers? Risk analysis and innovation´s promotion under the Novel Food Regulation,” European Food and Feed Law Review, 3, 219-227 (2022) https://effl.lexxion.eu/article/EFFL/2022/3/6

• Speaker at the 'Bioeconomy Economics Workshop on Economics & Governance of The Global Bioeconomy' (University of Passau, DE).
  09-10 October 2024
  Contribution title: “Regulatory Barriers and Incentives for Alternative Proteins in the European Union and Australia-New Zealand”.
• Speaker at 'Shaping Gastronomy: Regenerating Food Systems and Societies’, panel ‘Justice, Governance, and Sovereignties' (University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, IT).
  26-28 September 2024
  Contribution title: “Regulatory Barriers and Incentives for Alternative Proteins in the European Union and Australia-New Zealand”.
• Lecturer at the 'Alternative Proteins - Challenges and Chances at the BioSC International Summer School 2024' (RWTH Aachen, DE) 2.-6. September 2024 Responsible for the session: “Alternative protein products: Policy and acceptance”.
• Speaker, at 'FLAN Conference 2024: Legal issues for a sustainable agrifood chain' (University of Bari, IT)
  15-16 May 2024
  Contribution title: “A perspective on the regulation of cultivated meat in the EU”.
• Speaker, at 'ICABR 2023' (Buenos Aires, ARG)
  04-07 July 2023
  Contribution title: “Innovation Systems Analysis of the EU Novel Food Regulation”, with Tilman Reinhardt, panel “Innovate EU Food Law beyond the Farm-to-Fork Strategy”.
• Speaker, at 'Future of Food Law´, Annual WUR Law Group Conference Series 2023 (Wageningen University, Wageningen, NL)
  25 – 26 May 2023
  Contribution title: “How innovation-friendly is the novel food regulation?”, with Tilman Reinhardt.
• Speaker, at '21. Bayreuther FLMR-Herbstsymposium Die Regulierung von Innovationen im Lebensmittelsektor'
  13-14 October 2022
  Contribution title: “Innovating food with mycelium: EU regulations”, together with Alexandra Molitorisová.
• Participant in the 'Parma Summer School 2021', organized by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), University of Parma, School of Advanced Studies on Food and Nutrition, and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (28-30 September 2021)

Founder and President of the Bayreuth Kulmbach Alt Protein Project (2020-current), a student associations promoting education and awareness on alternative proteins.