I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Finance at the Institute for Financial Innovation and Technology of the LMU Munich School of Management (Germany) and an Affiliated Researcher at the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) (Australia). Previously, I completed a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Accounting at the Department of Management of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna (Italy). Before my post-doctoral studies, I earned two PhDs in Finance and Accounting at the University of Wollongong (Australia) and the University of Molise (Italy), respectively. I also served as a Visiting Research Fellow at Florida Polytechnic University (US), an Industrial Ph.D. Researcher in Market Microstructure at the Rozetta Institute (formerly CMCRC-SIRCA) (Australia), a Foreign Exchange Benchmark Surveillance Specialist at LSEG Data & Analytics (formerly Refinitiv) (UK), and as Co-Founder of 110 Laude s.r.l. (Italy), a Fintech spin-off of the University of Molise. 

My research interest mainly focuses on empirical market microstructure, innovation in financial technology and crypto & blockchain economics. My publications appear in well-known academic journals such as the Journal of Banking & Finance, The British Accounting Review, The Journal of Futures Markets, the International Review of Financial Analysis, and Economics Letters.