Expert on Europe

After obtaining his PhD at the University of Florence (1998), he spent his post-doctoral year in Sciences Po (2001-02). He became Lecturer at the University of Salerno (2002), where he was promoted Associate Professor in 2005. He then moved to Bologna in 2008. He has been Deputy-Director of the Istituto Cattaneo Research Foundation (2010-11) and he is a member of the 'Il Mulino' Association since 2010. He has been visiting Professor at the Universities of Lyon (2012-14), Trier (2013), Queen Mary (2017), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Crick Centre at the University of Sheffield (2015). Since 2022 he is Research Associate at the University of Surrey. Since 2023 he is co-editor of the Annual Review of the Journal of Common Market Studies