He studied Business Administration at the University of Catania and Trade Marketing and Commercial Strategies at the University of Parma. In 2017 he completed a Traineeship at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in the Text and Data Mining Unit. He is currently a PhD student in Data Science at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, in partnership with University of Pisa, Scuola Superiore S. Anna di Pisa, Scuola IMT Alti Studi di Lucca and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. His research interests mainly focus on robust statistics and data science techniques and methods.