Simone Pitto is a tenure-track researcher (RTT) in Comparative Public Law at the Department of Law, Politics and International Studies since 2026. Previously, he served as a research assistant at the Superior Council of the Judiciary from 2023 to 2026 and as a research fellow in Constitutional Law at the Department of Law at the University of Genoa from 2022 to 2026. He holds a Ph.D. in domestic, comparative, and European constitutional law and was an attorney at the Bar of Genoa. He is the author of over 50 scholarly publications in Italian, English, French, and Spanish on comparative public law, food law, human rights, sustainability, voter participation, and judicial independence. He has also participated as speaker in numerous conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad, and has participated in public hearings before the Regional Council of Liguria and the Senate of the Italian Republic. Awarderd with the National qualification for associate professor since 2024 (ASN 2023–2025), he was also awarded a prize for the best doctoral dissertations from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Genoa for the 31st doctoral cycle, as well as the Marco Ubertini Prize for his score on the State bar exam for lawyers. For his research, he has also received a scientific label by the Franco-Italian University (UIF/UFI) and funding through competitive grant selections from, among others, the University of Parma, the University of Genoa and the Institut Français Italia (Embassy of France in Italy); he also conducted international research stays, inter alia, at the CREDOF Center at the University of Paris Nanterre and the Haberle Center of the University of Granada.
