Velizar Kirilov is a Ph.D. researcher in Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His research project is supervised by Professor Nicolas Petit and focuses on the intersection of competition law, intellectual property law and data protection in the pharmaceutical industry with a special focus on the process of innovation competition. He also investigates the competitive effects of the adoption of Big data analytics and Artificial intelligence in this sector, as well as the law and economics of different types of unilateral anticompetitive practices.