PARALLEL SESSION 2

Since 2004 at EU-OSHA, Emmanuelle Brun works as a Senior Research Project Manager in the Prevention and Research Unit. She has been managing EU-OSHA’s research work on the impacts of digitalisation on OSH, investigating the impact on OSH of AI and automation, AI and algorithmic management of workers, digital platform work and smart wearables and monitoring tools. Her main areas of work are related to the changing world of work and new and emerging risks on OSH, as well as dangerous substances, and work-related diseases.

Before joining EU-OSHA, she worked at the OSH Institute of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA) for four years, after starting her career in environmental chemistry at Rhône-Poulenc in the USA in 1999. Emmanuelle holds a double master’s and engineering degree in Chemistry.

Armanda Cetrulo is Assistant Professor in Economics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. Her research focuses on three main areas of interest: the relation between technological change, labour and work organization; the evolution of occupational structures and labour market institutions in advanced economies; and the study of socio-economic inequalities from an
intersectional perspective. She has published her research in national and international peerreviewed journals, and she has recently co-edited a call for papers on the impact of the digital and ecological transitions on labour and industrial relations in Europe for the European Journal of Industrial Relations. She has collaborated with European and international institutions including EU-OSHA, ETUI and ILO, on topics related to innovation and occupational health and safety, working time reduction and digital labour platforms.

Alessio Bertolini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Fairwork, based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He coordinates Fairwork’s research in location-based digital labour platforms across countries, both in the Global North and the Global South. Besides his work at Fairwork he has been a consultant on labour standards in the platform economy also for the ILO and for EU-OSHA.

Alessio has longstanding expertise in comparative labour market policies and regulations of casual and non-standard workers and a keen interest in the impact of digitalisation and more broadly, technological change on working conditions and labour standards.

Alessio completed his PhD in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and a postdoc at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. His background is interdisciplinary, spanning from sociology of work, comparative political economy and labour law.

Michael McEnery is an operations Manager with over 30 years of experience in production and operations management across diverse sectors. With the past seven years at Irish Distillers, where he currently leads Bond and Warehouse Operations.

Michael is deeply committed to fostering a culture of safety in high-paced environments, with a strong focus on machinery and vehicle safety. He is particularly passionate about leveraging emerging technologies to enhance both workplace safety and employee wellbeing.

Oscar Molina is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) and director of the Institute for Labour Studies (IET) at the UAB. He holds a degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Prior to joining the UAB, he was a postdoctoral researcher for the Irish government in the Industrial Relations and Human Resources Group at University College Dublin (2005-2007) and an ICREA junior researcher at QUIT.

His research focuses on the comparative analysis of industrial relations and collective bargaining, trade unions, labour markets and comparative political economy with a particular focus on Mediterranean capitalism. Recently, his research has been focusing on the impact of the extension of AI on employment relations and coordinating the TRANSVEC project on the just transition in the electric vehicle. He has coordinated several European projects and has worked as an external collaborator for the ILO and the European Commission. He coordinates Eurofound's team of national correspondents in Spain. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the European Journal of Industrial Relations and Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research.