Alessio Asmundo is a professor at the University of Messina. He enrolled in the degree course in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Messina in 1978. He obtained a specialization in legal and insurance medicine with full marks and honors at the University of Palermo in 1989. From 1991 to 2001, he worked at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Messina as a technical collaborator. Since 2001, he has been a confirmed researcher and from 2006 to 2007, he was an adjunct professor at the Forensic Medicine section of the Department of Territorial Social Medicine, University of Messina. He was the Director of the School of Specialization in Forensic Medicine at the University of Messina from 2021 to 2022. He is a member of the Group of Italian Forensic Geneticists (GeFI) and a member of the Board of Directors. He was the organizer of the 21st National Conference (Lipari, 5–7 September 2006). He is a member of the International Society of Forensic Genetics (ISFG), the Group of Italian Forensic Pathologists (GIPF) and the Interdisciplinary Group for the Study of Iatrogenic Damage (GISDI).