Nadia POCHER

Dr Nadia Pocher is a Research Scientist at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), within the FINATRAX research group. She is a member of the leadership team of the FutureFinTech National Centre of Excellence in Research and Innovation.
She manages the FutureFinTech Lighthouse initiative on crypto-assets and leads FINATRAX’s Industry Expert Group in FinTech. She also contributes to the acquisition and management of industry partnerships and research grants.

Her research explores the interplay between emerging technologies and regulatory compliance in financial services. Working at the intersection of information systems, computer science and financial regulation, she studies crypto-assets, central bank digital currencies and digital payments from a socio-technical perspective.
She examines how increasingly complex regulatory frameworks shape institutions, organisations and individuals. Her work also develops approaches for compliance by design, including the use of machine learning and privacy-enhancing technologies to support regulatory objectives.

She teaches across several Master’s programmes at the University of Luxembourg. Her lectures cover financial technologies, decentralised finance, blockchain and cryptocurrency markets, central bank digital currencies, information systems, and compliance by design.
She also coordinates the Financial Technologies course within the Master in Information and Computer Sciences.

She actively engages in outreach and knowledge transfer across academia and industry. She regularly presents her work at international conferences and delivers invited talks. She collaborates with financial institutions, public authorities and industry associations, and contributes to the organisation of international conferences and workshops in information systems and blockchain research. She also serves as local organising chair for the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2027.

She received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) in 2024. She holds a PhD in Law, Science and Technology awarded excellent cum laude in 2023, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in European and Transnational Law awarded summa cum laude in 2016.

Before joining the University of Luxembourg in 2023 as a Postdoctoral Researcher at SnT (FINATRAX), she was a Doctoral Researcher in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Joint Doctorate in Law, Science and Technology – Rights of the Internet of Everything. She previously worked as a trainee lawyer and researcher specialising in anti-money laundering and anti-corruption, with earlier experience in law firms and judicial institutions in Italy.

Dr. Pocher holds a PhD in Law, Science and Technology from the University of Bologna, KU Leuven and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, awarded excellent cum laude in March 2023. She earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in European and Transnational Law from the University of Trento, awarded summa cum laude in March 2016, and completed an Erasmus exchange and a research stay at Utrecht University.