Graduated in Statistics and Economics at the University of Siena in 1994, obtained his PhD degree in Applied Statistics at the University of Florence in 1998. In 1998 has been Visiting Researcher at the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change, University of Essex; in 1999 was Lecturer in Statistics at the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics; from 2000 to April 2005 was Permanent Researcher (Lecturer) at the Department of Quantitative Methods; from May 2005 to December 2016 was Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics; and since January 2017 is Full Professor in Economic Statistics at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena.