Biography
Biography
Tina Salerno is a PhD candidate in Cybersecurity at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and the University of Bologna (since December 1, 2023).
She currently serves as a teaching tutor for the course Digital Forensics at the University of Bologna, after having served as academic tutor for the Master’s Programme in Data Processing and Data Protection Officer (2023–2025) under the supervision of the Master’s Director, Prof. Raffaella Brighi.
In 2025, she carried out a research period abroad as a visiting researcher at the Justice Digital Center, University of Wrocław (Poland), supported by an Erasmus+ scholarship, where she developed a research project focused on evaluating the intrusiveness of artificial intelligence systems in criminal investigations, balancing fundamental rights, security, and evidentiary reliability.
She was admitted to the Italian Bar (Court of Appeal of Catanzaro) on November 4, 2022, following 18 months of professional practice at Studio Legale Anania, specializing in criminal proceedings concerning organized crime, public administration offences, and crimes against individuals and property, collaborating in investigations by the DDA of Catanzaro regarding violations of Art. 416-bis of the Italian Criminal Code.
She earned a second-level Master’s degree from San Raffaele University, Rome, with a score of 110/110 cum laude, defending a thesis entitled “The Use of Trojan Malware in Anti-Mafia Proceedings: Evidentiary Value of Captations in the ‘Stige’ Case.”
She was awarded the AWS Scholarship at the IFOSS International Summer School in 2024 and 2025, under the direction of Professors Giovanni Ziccardi, Sebastiano Battiato, and Donatella Curtotti, for academic merit in the intersection of law and technology.