Michele Fenzi obtained both his bachelor and master degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy. In 2009, he wrote his master's thesis "Markov Random Fields Pre-warping for preventing collusion in image transaction watermarking" during a six-month stay in Darmstadt, Germany, working at the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED). Since September 2010, he has been working towards a PhD degree at the Institut für Informationsverarbeitung. His research interests are image interpretation and computer vision.