Francesco Zola obtained his bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy, in 2012 and his master’s degree in Computer Science from the same university, in 2015. He works as an associate researcher and data scientist in Vicomtech in the department of Digital Security with a special focus on applying Artificial Intelligence algorithms to forensic and cybersecurity analysis. He was involved in several EU projects like TITANIUM, ASGARD and Anti-FinTer whose aim was to support law enforcement agencies to investigate and mitigate crime and terrorism that involves virtual currencies and underground market transactions. Francesco was a visiting researcher firstly at University College London (UCL) in the Systems Security Research Lab and then at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in the Digital and Biometric Traces department. In 2019 he started his doctorate in collaboration with the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), focusing his works on graph analysis, machine learning, data augmentation and classification.