Luís Filipe Costa is a PhD Candidate in Criminology whose research focuses on the intersections between financial regulation, compliance, anti-money laundering frameworks, and economic and financial crime. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Maia, where he completed a dissertation entitled Money Laundering and Crypto-assets: A New Paradigm in the Concealment of Illicit Funds. His research interests lie primarily in corruption, money laundering, criminal compliance, and the preventive architecture designed to address contemporary forms of financial criminality. He is currently an integrated researcher at JusGov (Research Centre for Justice and Governance), where his doctoral work is developed within an interdisciplinary scientific environment that brings together criminological, legal, and governance-oriented perspectives. His academic trajectory also includes participation in an FCT-funded research project on property crime based on judicial analysis. Alongside his academic activity, Luís works as a FinCrime Analyst at Revolut, with particular specialization in source of funds (SoF) and source of wealth (SoW) analysis. He previously worked as a KYC Vetting Analyst at Natixis, where he conducted due diligence on legal entities, including banks, corporates, and other financial institutions. Luís is the author and co-author of several scientific publications on topics such as romance fraud, property crime, unjustified enrichment, and compliance. He has also held relevant student leadership positions, including Vice-President of the Criminology Students’ Union and Member of the Management Board of the Student Association at the University of Maia, as well as serving on the institution’s Pedagogical Council between 2022 and 2023. His doctoral research reflects a critical and interdisciplinary approach aimed at examining the evolving normative, institutional, and preventive responses to financial and economic crime in the 21st century.