ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
October 2019–present Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology Department, University of Essex.
August 2021 – present Director of the Centre for Criminology, University of Essex.
01/09/2022 – present External examiner BA Criminology, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex.
2016–2019 Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology Department, University of Essex.
2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University (Belgium).
2013–2016 Ph.D. researcher, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University (Belgium).
2012–2013 Research officer, IRCP, Ghent University (Belgium).
EDUCATION
2016 PhD Criminology, Ghent University (Belgium).
2011 LM distinction (Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza, 110/110 cum laude), University of Trento (Italy).
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Visiting Scholar at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL).
2019 Visiting Research Fellow at the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, VUB, Brussels (Belgium).
2017 Erasmus+ Visiting Scholar at The Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU, Israel).
AWARDS & ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
2022 2 nominations for the PhD Supervisor of the Year Award.
2021 Winner of the ‘Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award’ for the Faculty of Social Sciences, for the University of Essex’s Celebrating Excellence in Research and Impact Awards 2021.
2020 Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale Italiana Fascia II – settore concorsuale 14/C3 SOCIOLOGIA DEI FENOMENI POLITICI E GIURIDICI (valido dal 09/11/2020 a 09/11/2031).
2020 Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale Italiana Fascia II – settore concorsuale 14/C1 SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE (valido da 18/11/2020 al 18/11/2031).
2018 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.