holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Business Law in the European Union and Sustainable Economy and has been an Associate Professor of Business Law and European Company Law at the University of Macerata, Italy, since 2018. He has also been a Marie Curie & TRENTINO Fellow at the University of Trento, with a grant awarded by the European Commission and the Autonomous Province of Trento. His main research interests are in Company Law, with a special focus on SMEs.