Forensic Horizons: Investigating the Truth in the Digital and Artificial Intelligence Era.
Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensic Analysis, Cybersecurity, and AI-Based Investigations.
The school will be open to about 75 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. Ph. D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or academic/industrial professionals.
A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for presenting their current research/tool in the covered areas. A Special Issue to follow up on the themes covered in the School will be published in some indexed high-impact journals (to be announced early).
Applicants are particularly encouraged to submit their original research to the SI (the usual refereeing procedure applies to guarantee the highest scientific standards).
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Topic1
Speaker Bio:
Sebastiano Battiato is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Catania. He received his degree in Computer Science (summa cum laude) in 1995 from the University of Catania and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Naples in 1999. From 1999 to 2003 he was the leader of the “Imaging” team at STMicroelectronics in Catania. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Catania in 2004 (respectively as assistant professor, associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2016). He is involved in research and directorship at the IPLab research lab (http://iplab.dmi.unict.it) where he coordinates IPLab participation to large scale projects funded by national and international funding bodies, as well as by private companies. Prof. Battiato has participated as principal investigator in many international and national research projects. His research interests include image enhancement and processing, image coding, camera imaging technology and multimedia forensics. He has edited 6 books and co-authored about 200 papers in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Guest editor of several special issues published in International Journals. He is also co-inventor of 22 international patents, reviewer for several international journals, and he has been regularly a member of numerous international conference committees. Chair of several international events (ICIAP 2017, VINEPA 2016, ACIVS 2015, VAAM2014-2015-2016, VISAPP2012-2015, IWCV2012, ECCV2012, ICIAP 2011, ACM MiFor 2010-2011, SPIE EI Digital Photography 2011-2012-2013, etc.). He is an associate editor of the SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging. He is the recipient of the 2011 Best Associate Editor Award of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is director (and co-founder) of the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), Sicily, Italy. He is the founder and director of the International Forensic Summer School (IFOSS). He is a senior member of the IEEE. Since 2019 he is Deputy rector for strategic planning and information systems. Since 2018 he’s in the TIS list (Top Italian Scientist) della Via-Academy. Since 2019 he is in the Top 2% World Scientists list (Long Career 2020-2021-2022, single year 2019-2020-2021-2022)” published in Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P.A. (2021), “August 2021 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, V3.
Topic 2
Speaker: Donatella Curtotti
Speaker Bio:
Born in San Severo (FG) 21 November 1970 and based in Bari.
In 1993, she graduated in Law at the University of Bari with a thesis entitled “The due process of law under the International Criminal Court”, with a score of 110/110 cum laude and academic acclaim.
Since 1996, the district attorney at the Court of Appeal of Bari.
In 1998, she won a scholarship in criminal procedure at the University of Foggia. In 1997-1998, a lawyer at Whitelock & Storr, London (GB).
In 1997-1998, internal at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. In 1998, winner of the PhD in “penal system and process” at the University of Naples “Federico II”.
In 2002, a contractor at the University of Foggia.
Since 2003, researcher of Criminal Procedure at the University of Foggia. Since 2006, Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Foggia.
Since 2015, Full Professor in Criminal Procedure Law.
Since 2017, Law Department’s Director.
Responsibility international scientific projects
2009-2010 Lifelong Learning Programme Education and Culture DG European Union: “The EU environmental policies: environmental crimes“.
2010-2011 Lifelong Learning Programme Education and Culture DG European Union: “The EU environmental policies: environmental crimes“.
2011-2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Education and Culture DG European Union: “The EU environmental policies: environmental crimes“.
Institutional scientific activity
Component, at the University of Foggia, the Academic Board of Doctorate Search in “Criminal Procedure Law internal, international and comparative” (cycles XVI-XVII-XIX-XXXXI); the PhD in “penal system and process” (XVIII cycle) and Doctorate Search in “Criminal Law” (XVI cycle).
Member of Editorial Board, Scuola Superiore di Polizia, del 1° Stage di coordinamento in tecniche investigative e tecnico-scientifiche per Funzionari.
Member of the Scientific Committee for the assessment of the requirements on the registration numbers of the personnel of the Central Operational Service of the State Police and of the Mobile Squads, at the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the State Police.
Member of the Board of the PhD in “Neuroscience and Education” (starting from 2020)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Series of the Department of Legal Sciences “Cesare Beccaria”, published by the publisher Giuffré (starting from 2021).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian-Spanish review of procedural law, published by Marcial Pons (starting from 2021).
Member of Review Committee of the Journal “La Magistratura” (starting from 2021).
Topic 3 EU AI ACT
Hours: 1.3
Speaker: Giovanni Ziccardi
Speaker Bio:
Professor Ziccardi received his graduate degree (in Law) from the University of Modena and his Ph.D. in Legal Informatics from the University of Bologna. He writes about digital death (“Il Libro Digitale dei Morti”, UTET), hate speech (“L’odio online”, Raffaello Cortina), global surveillance (“Internet, controllo e libertà”, Raffaello Cortina), digital dissidence (“Resistance, Liberation Technology and Human Rights in the Digital Age”, Springer), cyber law (“Cyber Law in Italy”, Kluwer), hacking (“Hacker”, Marsilio) and thriller/fiction (“L’ultimo hacker”, Marsilio).
Topic 4 Computer Vision and Digital Investigations: from Surveillance Cameras to UAVs
Hours: 1.45
Speaker: Gianluca Foresti
Speaker Bio:
Gianluca Foresti was born in Savona in 1965. He graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering in 1990 and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994 from the University of Genoa.
In 1994, he became a university professor at the University of Trento, teaching in the Electronic Engineering program. He is currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science (DIMI) at the University of Udine. Shortly after his graduation, he collaborated with the Department of Biophysics and Electronic Engineering (DIBE) at the University of Genoa, working in the areas of Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Image Understanding.
His Ph.D. thesis focused on distributed systems for the analysis and interpretation of real-time video sequences. He has participated in numerous national and international projects funded by the European Union, especially in the fields of autonomous vehicles and active environmental surveillance systems.
Prof. Foresti is the author and co-author of more than 200 international publications, including books and conference proceedings. He serves as a reviewer for various international journals and is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IAPR, and a member of GRIN. He has also been involved as an evaluator for research projects in several European Union-funded programs.
Topic 5 Truth in judgment, truth in evidence. How to make them compatible in the age of digital Investigations
Hours: 1
Speaker: Francesco Barlolo Morelli
Speaker Bio:
Francesco Morelli (1980), Phd, is Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure in the Department of Law of the University of Messina. Researcher since 2012 and Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure since 2018 in the Department of Law of the University of Ferrara, them Bergamo.
Francesco Morelli taught Investigation Techniques, Criminal Procedure, and he held the Legal Clinic in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure.
He is member of the Academic Board of the Phd in “European Union Law and National Legal Systems” the since 2013 in the University of Ferrara.
He wrote a book about the acquittal in the Italian system (Le formule di proscioglimento. Radici storiche e funzioni attuali, Giappichelli, 2014) and a book about the Court of Cassation (L’annullamento senza rinvio nel giudizio penale di cassazione. Le coordinate di un potere ancipite, Cedam, Padova, 2023). His research activity deals with habeas corpus and pretrial cautionary measures, the migrants’ rights of freedom, European Arrest Warrant, personal data protection in the criminal trial, biological and digital evidence, principal of legality, jurisdiction, Court of Cassation, time limit and evidence law. He took part to national and international projects of research. He spoke in several national congresses. In 2015 he taught in the Course of digital Investigation for the Italian Police.
Topic 6 A brief introduction to forensic science — definitions – forensic process – casework – RD&I – education – quality
Hours: 2
Speaker: Andrea Cavallaro
Speaker Bio:
Andrea Cavallaro is the Idiap Director and a Full Professor at EPFL. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. His research interests include machine learning for multimodal perception, computer vision, machine listening, and information privacy.
Andrea received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from EPFL in 2002. He was a Research Fellow with British Telecommunications in 2004 and was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Teaching Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target tracking and perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007 and 2009; and the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. In 2010, he was promoted to Full Professor at Queen Mary University of London, where he was the founding Director of the Centre for Intelligent Sensing and the Director of Research of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. He was a Turing Fellow (2018-2023) at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
He was selected as IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021) and served as Chair of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2020-2021). He also served as member of the Technical Directions Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and as elected member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee and chair of the Awards committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee.
He serves as Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and served as Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing: Image Communication (2020-2023); as Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014); and as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2011-2015), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2009-2010), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2008-2011) and IEEE Multimedia (2016-2018). He also served as Guest Editor the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2019), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2017, 2011), Pattern Recognition Letters (2016), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2013), International Journal of Computer Vision (2011), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2010), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (2010), Annals of the British Machine Vision Association (2010), Journal of Image and Video Processing (2010, 2008), and Journal on Signal, Image and Video Processing (2007).
He published a monograph on Video tracking (2011, Wiley) and three edited books: Multi-camera networks (2009, Elsevier); Analysis, retrieval and delivery of multimedia content (2012, Springer); and Intelligent multimedia surveillance (2013, Springer).
Topic 7 Reframing the meaning of truth in AI generated content
Hours: 2
Speaker: Laura Ferrarello
Speaker Bio:
Dr Laura Ferrarello is a Senior Design Researcher at the EPFL AI Centre and Research Associate at the HERUS Lab. She collaborates with multiple EPFL labs to explore design research and thinking to foster dialogue between technology and society. Laura teaches The Practice of Ethics in Engineering Research, a PhD-level course that uses a system thinking approach to address and act upon ethical dilemmas.
Prior to joining EPFL, Laura led for six years the Master in Design Research at the Royal College of Art in London, where she still holds an external PhD supervisor position. Her research interest include ethical and participated forms of governance, design for ethics, design for dialogue and design for complexity.
In Laura’s work, the tangibility of design – as an object or experience – is what makes impact for making change at a system level. Design is a means for enabling dialogue, understanding of complex situations, literacy and knowledge exchange across sectors and disciplines.
Her practice, at the intersection of society, technology and the environment, is aimed at using design strategies to develop innovative processes and outputs that are ethical by design. To promote this objective, Laura created the online course on the Future Learn Platform – Ethical Practices to Guide Creativity and Innovation – guiding an innovation thinking that understands ethics as opportunities for innovation. She exhibited and curated events in world-leading venues, such as the Saatchi Gallery (UK), the Design Museum (UK), The Barbican (UK), The V&A (UK), The Pacific Design Centre (USA), the Venice Biennale (IT), and the West Bund Artistic Centre (CH). Exhibited and curated work includes topics like AI and privacy, the future of flying experience, the future of work, curating as a method to engage in museums, amongst others. Laura led and contributed as co–investigator to a range of interdisciplinary research projects with the industry, including British Airways, Fujitsu, Huawei, amongst others. She also collaborated with organisations like UNESCO, Lloyd’s Register Foundation, and The Royal National Lifeboat Institution for developing design–led methods to increase safety in the maritime sector.
Laura presented her research papers and work in leading institutions, including Harvard GSD, Imperial London, King’s College, Fudan University, Tongji University, amongst others.
She is completing her first book “Engaging Design: Tools for design practices urging new forms of citizenships”, co-authored with Dr Robert Phillips (2025).
Topic 8 Adversary malware generation: the end of detection?
Hours: 0.45
Speaker: Corrado Aaron Visaggio
Speaker Bio:
Corrado Aaron Visaggio, PhD in Information Engineering, and Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering, is full professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Foggia (italy), and Chief Scientist Officer at DefenceTech spa, a large company operating in aerospace, cybersecurity and developing defence technology. His research focuses on the intersection of Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence and more precisely his main research topics are: Generative Adversarial Networks, malicious LLMs, malware analysis, threat intelligence, IOT Security, blockchain, and software security. He is Professor of Malware Analysis at the International School for the Prevention and Fight against Organized Crime (Scuola Internazionale di Alta Formazione per la Prevenzione ed il Contrasto del Crimine Organizzato). The school was organized by the Italian Ministry of Interior and is attended by the law enforcements of all over the World, in premise of the Italian Police School, Caserta (Italy). He is Professor of malware analysis at Master di Competenze digitali per la protezione dei dati, la cybersecurity e la privacy (Master in Cybersecurity and Privacy), at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He is and has been the Principal Investigator of many research projects funded by different Italian Ministries, and also the Scientific Leader of research contracts with Industry. He was associate and assistant professor at the University of Sannio (Italy). He is member of the Managing Board of the CINI National Cybersecurity Lab, and member of the Professors Board of the National PhD Program in Cybersecurity at Italian Ministry of University. He is in the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and International Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques (Springer), and in the Program Committee of several International Conferences, as well as: ARES, ITASEC, CANS, The Web Conference, ISSRE, Malware Conference.He was General Chair of ARES 2023. He authored over 120 publications in International Scientific Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences in the field. The full list is available here: https:///dblp.org/pid/38/2506.html. He co-authored the book “Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence”, editors: Mark Stamp, Corrado Ayron Visaggio, Francesco Mercaldo, Fabio Di Troia, ISBN: 978-3-030-97087-1, Springer, 2022.
Topic 9 A brief introduction to forensic science — definitions – forensic process – casework – RD&I – education – quality
Hours: 1.5
Speaker: Didier Meuwly
Speaker Bio:
He is born in Fribourg, Switzerland. After a classical education (Latin / Philosophy), I graduated as a criminalist and criminologist (1993) and received his PhD (2000), both at the School of Forensic Science (Ecole de Sciences Criminelles) of the University of Lausanne. I share my time between The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, where I am a principal scientist, and the University of Twente, where I hold the chair of Forensic Biometrics. I was previously responsible for the fingerprint section within the NFI and the leader of a project about the probabilistic evaluation of fingerprint evidence. From 2002 to 2004 I worked as a senior forensic scientist at the R&D department of the Forensic Science Service (UK-FSS), then an executive agency of the British Ministry of the Interior.
I serve as an associate editor for Forensic Science International (FSI) and is a member of the R&D standing committee of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI-RDSC). I am is also a member of the ISO Technical Committee 272 Forensic Science, developing the ISO standard 21043.
Topic 10 .Forensic Biometrics: the use of biometric data and databases in forensic applications
Hours: 1.5
Speaker: Didier Meuwly
Speaker Bio:
He is born in Fribourg, Switzerland. After a classical education (Latin / Philosophy), I graduated as a criminalist and criminologist (1993) and received his PhD (2000), both at the School of Forensic Science (Ecole de Sciences Criminelles) of the University of Lausanne. I share my time between The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, where I am a principal scientist, and the University of Twente, where I hold the chair of Forensic Biometrics.
I was previously responsible for the fingerprint section within the NFI and the leader of a project about the probabilistic evaluation of fingerprint evidence. From 2002 to 2004 I worked as a senior forensic scientist at the R&D department of the Forensic Science Service (UK-FSS), then an executive agency of the British Ministry of the Interior.
I serve as an associate editor for Forensic Science International (FSI) and is a member of the R&D standing committee of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI-RDSC). I am is also a member of the ISO Technical Committee 272 Forensic Science, developing the ISO standard 21043.
Topic 11 Follow the crypto-crimes: legal challenges from investigation to trial
Hours: 0.45
Speaker: Jacopo Della Torre
Speaker Bio:
Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure at the University of Genoa, where he teaches Criminal Procedure I (Genoa and Imperia) and Criminal Procedure in Economic Matters.He previously held research positions at the Universities of Genoa and Trieste. He has been a Visiting Academic at the University of Nottingham (UK) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ljubljana (SLO).He is a member of several editorial boards, including Sistema Penale, Processo Penale e Giustizia, and the Collección PROBATICIUS series (Aranzadi). He serves on the faculty board of the PhD in Security, Risk and Vulnerability and co-coordinates the Legal Clinic on Penitentiary Institutions at the University of Genoa.Author of two monographs and over ninety publications on criminal justice, evidence law, procedural rights, and the use of statistics and technology in criminal trials.He leads and participates in national and international research projects, including as PI of PRIN 2022 CryptoSafe on cryptoasset seizures, and Deputy PI of PRIN 2022 EPPITALY on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Topic 12 Cybersecurity: Two Perspectives, One Goal
Hours: 1
Speaker: Stefano Mele
Speaker Bio:
Stefano Mele is recognized as one of the leading experts in ICT, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Law both in Italy and internationally. With over 20 years of experience, he has advised on complex, cross-jurisdictional legal matters involving emerging technologies, privacy, cyber defense, and crisis management. He is one of only seven lawyers globally appointed to the Regulatory and Governance Committee of NEOM’s Board in Saudi Arabia. A partner at Gianni & Origoni, he previously led the Tech Law and Cybersecurity Department of a major law firm. He lectures at the University of Foggia and chairs cybersecurity committees within the Italian Atlantic Committee and AmCham Italy. He was awarded “Professional of the Year – High-Tech & Cybersecurity” in 2025 and “Professional of the Year – Privacy” in 2023 by Legalcommunity.
Topic 13 Strengths and weaknesses in the use of AI in the forensic field
Hours: 0.45
Speaker: Giovanni Tessitore
Speaker Bio:
Giovanni Tessitore, with a degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computational and Informatics Sciences obtained from the University of Naples “Federico II”, gained experience in image processing and statistical learning from examples during his doctoral studies and subsequent years of research at the same university.
He currently serves as the Director of the Electronic Investigations Section of the IV Division of the Scientific Police Service, where he oversees, among other responsibilities, activities related to the analysis and processing of images and videos, including facial and anthropometric comparison, image and video enhancement, and the implementation of automatic facial recognition systems.
Topic 14 Can we trust the Likelihood Ratio obtained with a black-box model?
Hour: 0.45
Speaker: Giovanni Tessitore
Speaker Bio:
Giovanni Tessitore, with a degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computational and Informatics Sciences obtained from the University of Naples “Federico II”, gained experience in image processing and statistical learning from examples during his doctoral studies and subsequent years of research at the same university.
He currently serves as the Director of the Electronic Investigations Section of the IV Division of the Scientific Police Service, where he oversees, among other responsibilities, activities related to the analysis and processing of images and videos, including facial and anthropometric comparison, image and video enhancement, and the implementation of automatic facial recognition systems.
Topic 15 Black boxes and confirmation bias in media forensics
Hours: 2
Speaker: Fernando Perez Gonzalez
Speaker Bio:
Fernando joined the faculty of the School of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Vigo, as an assistant professor in 1990 and since 2000 is Professor (Catedrático) in the same institution. During 2009-2012 he was the holder of the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair (now King Felipe VI Endowed Chair) on Information Science and Technology at the University of New Mexico (UNM), where he currently is Research Professor. During 2007-2014 he was Founding Executive Director of GRADIANT (Galician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications), a private-public R&D center with a staff of more than 200. He has been the principal investigator of more than 50 projects with industry. He holds 15 patents covering a wide range of technologies, including printed document protection, watermarking for surveillance systems, automatic content recognition, signal processing in the encrypted domain, telecommunications measurement equipment, and technologies for broadcast gap-fillers. He was coeditor of the book Intelligent Methods in Signal Processing and Communications (Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1997), has been Guest Editor of three special sections of the EURASIP journal Signal Processing devoted to signal processing for communications and digital watermarking, as well as Guest Editor of a Feature Topic of the IEEE Communications Magazine on digital watermarking. He has been Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the 10th-15th International Workshops on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW), the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP’13), and the 7th IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS2015).
Fernando was the Chair of the 5th and 6th Baiona Workshops on Signal Processing in Communications, held in Baiona, Spain, in 1999 and 2003, respectively, and Co-Chair of the 7th Information Hiding Workshop, in Barcelona, Spain, 2005, the First Workshop on Applications of the Benford’s Law, in Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2007, the 4th IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS2012, in Tenerife, Spain, 2012, the 4th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, in Vigo, Spain, 2016, the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2021, in Dublin, Ireland, 2022, and Chair of the 12th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, in Baiona, Spain, 2024. He has co-authored over 70 papers in leading international journals and more than 180 papers published in various conference proceedings. He led the group of the University of Vigo that took part in the European projects CERTIMARK and REWIND, ECRYPT, NIFTy, WITDOM and currently UNCOVER and TRUMPET. He has also been the representative for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in the European Research Area CHISTERA.
During 2007-2010 he was Program Manager of the Spanish National R&D Plan on Electronic and Communication Technologies, Ministry of Science and Innovation, where he oversaw an annual budget of over 21 M€. Fernando served as Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2005-2009) and IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security (2006-2010). He was been Editor in Chief of EURASIP International Journal on Information Security (Springer-Nature) from 2017 to 2021. During 2019-2021 he served as Senior Area Editor of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security; from 2023 he is back as an Associate Editor of this journal. He was an Elected Member of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committe, IEEE Signal Processing Society, in the periods 2010-2012, 2015-2017; 2024-2026 and an Eelected Member of the Special Area Team in Biometrics, Data Forensics and Security, EURASIP, during 2016-2018. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Academy (AIIA). Since 2014, he has been a member of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences, serving on its board of directors since 2019.
Topic 16 Fundamentals of Forensic Metrology in a nutshell
Hours: 0.3
Speaker: Gabriella Di Paolo
Speaker Bio:
Gabriella Di Paolo is a full professor of Criminal Procedure Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Trento, where she teaches Criminal Procedure and European Criminal Procedure. She is also a member of the Board of the PhD School on Comparative and European Legal Studies at the same university.
She is a member of the AIDP (International Association of Penal Law), the ASPP (G. D. Pisapia Association of Legal Scholars of Criminal Procedure) and the ECLAN (European Criminal Law Academic Network). Her main research interests are criminal procedure, EU criminal law, comparative law, and evidence, particularly the relationship between new technologies and criminal evidence. She has participated as a rapporteur or discussant at national and international conferences.
She has published around 100 contributions, including three monographs, four edited books and several articles in national and international law reviews. She is currently PI in a PRIN 2022 project entitled “Towards more reliable scientific evidence through forensic metrology: A novel approach against miscarriages of justice”.” Predictive Justice Is a Plastic Word? Initial Reflections and a Call to Gentleness 0,3 Mariano Sciacca “Judge at the Court of Catania, currently serving as a member of the High Council of the Judiciary (Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura – C.S.M.) and coordinator of the Joint Committee between the C.S.M. and the Ministry of Justice, established in 2011 to collaborate on the organization of judicial offices, best practices, IT systems, and judicial statistics.
He served for two years as a member of the Seventh Advisory Commission (which he chaired during the 2011–2012 term) and as coordinator of the Technical Structure for Organization within the C.S.M.
He is the lead coordinator of the Project Committee for the reengineering of the C.S.M. (known as the Brunetta–Vietti Protocol).
He also coordinated the pilot lab for the electronic civil trial at the Court of Catania, and acted as IT referent and project manager for the Best Practices initiative funded by the European Social Fund for the courts within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal of Catania.