 He worked in the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna between 1996 and 2008 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Turin in 2002.He was visiting adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, and at the Free University of Bolzano.He moved to the United States in 2008, where he was visiting fellow at the Jesuit Institute at Boston College in 2008 and 2009.