Senior Assistant Professor in Criminal Procedure, University of Bologna. She has a Ph.D. in Criminal Procedure Law from the University of Bologna, was Post-doc Researcher at the University of Luxembourg and Visiting Researcher at the University of North Carolina, Wroclaw and Paris Nanterre. She has worked in the legal department of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) of the European Central Bank and at the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
Her main research topics include: Procedural rights in criminal proceedings in the European and US contexts, the application of algorithmic and AI technologies to the criminal justice matter, new forms of digital investigations and surveillance, banking and financial investigations, AML/CFT and miscarriages of justice.
She is part of several European and international research projects (e.d. FACILEX, EPPITALY, PARTFin, CROSSJUSTICE, DEVICES, EUBAR) and the author of the monograph Banking Supervision and Criminal Investigation: Comparing the EU and US Experiences (Springer/Giappichelli, 2019).