Dr. Francesco Zola is a Senior Researcher in the Digital Security department and leads the technological line on combating cybercrime. He graduated with a degree in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (2012) from the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy) and later obtained a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering (2015) from the same institution. In 2022, he earned a PhD in Science and Industrial Technologies from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), where he applied machine learning algorithms to detect and classify anomalies in graphs within cybersecurity contexts. Furthermore, Dr. Zola has served as a visiting researcher at University College London (UCL), collaborating with the Systems Security Research Lab in the Department of Computer Science (2021), and at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), contributing to the Digital and Biometric Traces Department (2022).