Ilement — digital strategy and operations ilement digital strategy and operations

Structure for the work that matters.

Ilement works with research institutions, EU-funded projects, and early-stage technology organisations to bring governance rigour and operational clarity to complex digital environments. The work is specific, time-bounded, and built on direct experience — a decade of research infrastructure work, EU-funded project delivery, and active AI safety research.

One person who genuinely understands the problem is worth more than a team that understands the genre.

Project Governance & Delivery

  • Governance framework design
  • Stakeholder coordination
  • Project documentation
  • Delivery oversight

Relevant to: research institutions, university departments, EU-funded initiatives

Research Data Management

  • Data Management Plans (DMP)
  • GDPR-compliant workflows
  • Metadata standards and harmonisation
  • Open science publication and EU reporting

Relevant to: Horizon-funded projects, research institutes, academic departments

Digital Transformation Support

  • Requirements mapping and process design
  • Technical-to-institutional translation
  • Cross-team coordination
  • Procurement and system transition support

Relevant to: institutions undergoing procurement, web infrastructure, or system transitions

01

Direct accountability

One person, responsible for the whole engagement. No handoffs, no committee decisions, no diluted ownership. What gets agreed gets done.

02

Read the room, not just the brief

Most project problems are human before they are technical. Understanding what's actually blocking a decision — and who needs what to move — is as important as the technical work itself.

03

Calm under pressure

When timelines compress or stakeholders conflict, the response is clarity, not escalation. Distress is information, not an emergency.

04

Concrete over speculative

When a conversation drifts too far into the hypothetical, it gets redirected. The measure of any framework, process, or recommendation is whether someone can act on it.

Research & publications

2026 Laudito et al. Quantifying AI Alignment Failure Risks. Accepted, ICLAI Risks, KU Leuven
2025–26 AI Safety Saarland Research Fellow
2021 RETOPEA Dataset. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4627915
2020 Management and Translation of Metadata in Digital Projects. AIUCD Conference
2018–22 Research Data Manager, RETOPEA — EU Horizon-2020, €2.5M

Prior institutional work

2022–23 Project Manager — e-Procurement, Johannes Gutenberg University
2022–23 Project Manager — Web Relaunch, Johannes Gutenberg University
2017–18 Research Intern, Music Informatics, JGU

Education

2021 M.A. Digital Humanities, JGU Mainz
2019 M.A. Philosophy, JGU Mainz
2015 B.A. Philosophy, University of Turin

Certifications & languages

PRINCE2 Practitioner · CompTIA Security+ · PRINCE2 Foundation
Italian C2 · English C2 · German C2 · French B1
Germany · remote-first

Work together

To ensure the quality and focus each engagement deserves, Ilement takes on a small number of projects at a time. If you're working on something that needs external governance or operational support — and you'd like to understand what that could look like — get in touch.