PhD student in Peace Studies (Curriculum 2: Identities, Memories, Religions and Peace), he holds a Master’s degree in History and Society from Roma Tre University. His research focuses on shared and contested religious sites in the Balkans, with particular attention to the dynamics of conflict and coexistence in religiously and culturally plural contexts. His main interests concern the role of materiality in shaping religious life and practice, and the centrality of space and place within religious studies, approached through a perspective that combines historical, anthropological, and visual methods. He is committed to integrating historical research with ethnographic fieldwork, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and digital storytelling, aiming to offer innovative perspectives on religious and cultural heritage. His personal motivations are rooted in a path that began in the professional sphere, through previous experience in EU-funded programs for cooperation in the Western Balkans since 2010, and later developed through field research conducted since 2022 for the preparation of his bachelor’s and master’s theses, as well as for the publication of the article “Carrying the Cross of Discord: Sharing and Claims of the Cult of Saint Vladimir of Dioclea/Jovan Vladimir in Contemporary Montenegro”, published in the journal Fieldwork in Religion.