Biography

Marco Botta is Part-time Professor at the European University Institute, where he is the coordinator of the Florence Competition Programme (FCP) and ENTraNCE for Judges. In addition, he is Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI) in Munich (Germany). Finally, he is Adjunct Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna (Austria), where he teaches EU, competition and State aid law.

In March 2010, Dr. Botta defended his doctoral thesis in the Law Department of the EUI, which was later published as a monograph by Kluwer Law International. In addition, Dr. Botta holds a bachelor’s degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Turin (Italy) and LL.M. in European Business Law from the Law Faculty of Leiden University (the Netherlands).
Dr. Botta is author of several publications in peer-reviewed legal journals. His research focusses on EU competition and State aid law.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• Innovation and intellectual property in the Digital Age

Recent research output

• PARCU, Pier Luigi; MONTI, Giorgio; BOTTA, Marco; GALLI, Niccolò (2024), ENTraNCE for judges 2023 - challenges faced by judges in enforcing EU competition law : EU and national perspectives - selected case notes, Working Paper
• MAZZONI, Leonardo; BOTTA, Marco; CARLINI, Roberta; FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; PARCU, Pier Luigi (2024), Implications of the digital transformation on different social groups, Technical Report
• BOTTA, Marco; DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle (2023), User consent at the interface of the DMA and the GDPR : a privacy-setting solution to ensure compliance with ART. 5(2) DMA, Working Paper
• GALLI, Niccolò; BOTTA, Marco; CARLINI, Roberta; DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle; FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo; MAZZONI, Leonardo; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; PARCU, Pier Luigi; PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata; ROSSI, Maria Alessandra (2023), Position statement on the Joint ITA–NIST–USPTO collaboration initiative regarding standards : notice of public listening and request for comments, Working Paper
• GALLI, Niccolò; NIKOLIC, Igor; BOTTA, Marco; CARLINI, Roberta; CARROZZA, Chiara; DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle; FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo; MAZZONI, Leonardo; MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia; PARCU, Pier Luigi; PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata; ROSSI, Maria Alessandra (2023), Position statement on the European Commission’s proposal for a SEPs regulation, Working Paper
• BOTTA, Marco (2023), Shall we share? The principle of FRAND in B2B data sharing, Working Paper