After earning a degree with honors in Sociology from the University of Bologna and a master’s degree with honors in Analysis of Social Processes from the University of Milano-Bicocca, he obtained an European Doctorate with honors from IULM University in Milan, defending a thesis titled "One Pandemic, Many Controversies. Mapping the COVID-19 'Infodemic' via Digital Methods". Throughout his doctoral studies he has been involved in establishing the Infodemic Observatory, a project co-funded by the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the World Health Organization.
As a research assistant he has participated at the PRIN2015 "Media and Terrorism" and collaborated with the Horizon 2020 projects "inDICEs" (Measuring the Impact of Digital Culture) and "EUMEPLAT" (European Media Platforms: Assessing Negative and Positive Externalities for European Culture). As a visiting scholar he was affiliated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS in Paris in 2021 and the Medialab of the University of Geneva in 2023. He has also been a research fellow of the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) partnership funded by NRRP. Within this project his research revolved around LLM and Generative AI, exploring the potentiality of repurposing these tools as methods to enhance and innovate social research.
He is currently engaged in an additional Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Milano-Bicocca, focusing on the interaction between algorithms and citizenship. Furthermore, as a Research Associate at the Medialab of the University of Geneva, he is contributing to the project "UnMiSSeD" (Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates) funded through a competitive grant from the European Media and Information Fund.
He has served as a teaching assistant for master's-level courses such as "Big Data and Digital Methods" at the University of Milan and "Media, Power, and Society" at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he is currently instructing "Machine Learning and Generative AI for Social Research" and where is also an Adjunct Professor in "Video Surveillance, Datafication and New Forms of Control". He is as well Adjunct Professor in "Qualitative Methods for Digital Media Research" at the University of Bologna. Additionally, he contributed to the co-design of the KU Leuven MOOC on "Developing Digital Transition Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions", where he led two modules on the attention economy and on digital cultural production.
