- PhD in International Law and Law of European Union from the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy);
- Associate professor in private comparative law at the Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, University of Milan, Italy;
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Comparative, Private, Civil Procedural and Business Law of the University of Milan;
- Co-Editor of Latin American Journal of European Studies;
- Member of the editorial committee of the ESPAÇO JURÍDICO JOURNAL OF LAW [EJJL] – Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Brazil;
- Several visiting fellowships at Max Planck Institute for Comparative & International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany), March-April 2005/July 2011 (with scholarship).