Dr. Marie Morelato completed her Bachelor and Master degree in Forensic Science at the School of Criminal Justice of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2009. After completing her studies, she worked in the Wallis State Police (Switzerland) as a forensic scientist before moving to Australia to complete a one-year project on Gunshot residues at the UTS Centre for Forensic Science (CFS) in collaboration with the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

In 2015, she completed her PhD on drug intelligence at UTS. The project was a collaboration between the AFP, the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and UTS. In 2016, she obtained a prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from UTS. Her research involves the use of illicit drug data in an intelligence perspective. The repetitive and evolving nature of drug trafficking requires the triangulation of data from different sources to objectively understand its complexity. As a consequence, her research involves the triangulation of data coming from projects that look at the illicit drug problem through different angles: cryptomarkets, illicit drug seizures, illicit drug in wastewater, data from governmental sources. Marie is interested in other areas dealing with organised systems (e.g. organised crime, security) for which this approach can be adapted and implemented.