I undertook my graduate studies in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Rome Roma 3 with a dissertation surveying the literature on the brain drain. Then, I moved to the Department of Economics and Law (DEI) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where I did first my MA in Development Economics and International Cooperation and then the MA in Economic Theory.

Since 2005, I have been a PhD student in Finance there. My research interests are international migration and its relationship with the so called finance for development issue through remittances.

From September 2007, I have joined the IRES at the Universitè catholiqué de Louvain as a doctoral student in Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (cotutelle de these with the University of Tor Vergata). I have been working with Frederic Docquier either on the gender dimension of the brain drain and on the propensity to remit of the skilled migrants.