Holding a degree in Economic Social Sciences from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, after obtaining a Master SMEA in the management of the Agro-food sector, in 2014 I earned a Ph.D. from the doctoral school Agrisystem of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza.Until the end of 2015 I have been working as temporary research associate for the OPERA research center of the same university. From 2016 to 2023 I worked as EU projects Coordinator at the academic spinoff Aeiforia. Contemporary, I have been working as Managing Director at OpenTEA srl, a start up company providing scientific comunication and dissemination services as well as support in the EU project proposals setup and management. Since the beginning of 2023 I work as Project Manager at the RISE foundation, think tank in Brussels. Activities I am currently involved include scientific research initiatives at national and European level regarding the development of stakeholders’ engagement strategies for policy recomandations as well as comunication and dissemination activities to promote sustainability in the agro-food sector.Periodically, I am collaborating as reviewer for major scientific journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Food Chemical Toxicology, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Indicators.