Nadia Pocher received her PhD in Law, Science and Technology cum laude from the University of Bologna, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the KU Leuven, within the framework of the Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate – Rights of the Internet of Everything (LAST-JD-RIoE), funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Her academic background is in European and Transnational Law. She completed her studies at the University of Trento and Utrecht University, with a specific focus on European company law. Before pursuing her doctorate, she trained as a lawyer in Italy, focusing on money laundering, related offences and AML compliance, and she was later a judicial trainee in the criminal sector.
Her research interests include the AML/CFT regulation of digital asset ecosystems, relevant RegTech solutions, privacy-transparency trade-offs in central bank digital currency designs and DLT-based financial applications, anomaly detection and blockchain analytics, machine-to-machine payments.
Nadia joined the Digital Financial Services and Cross-Organizational Digital Transformations research group, FINATRAX, headed by Prof. Gilbert Fridgen in May 2023, as a postdoctoral researcher in Information Systems: Design and Innovation Theories for Fintech and Digital Assets.