I studied Anthropology and Sociology at Bologna University, Lumière Lyon 2 University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). From 2009 until 2013, I was a PhD student in Social Sciences at EHESS and at the Paul Bocuse Institute Research Centre (CIFRE grant), after which I became a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Edgar-Morin of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology (Paris).

I defended my PhD in July 2013 (cum laude distinction). For my thesis, I conducted ethnographic and cross-cultural research on forms and meanings of eating together among French, German and Spanish young adults. After my PhD, I worked on the dissemination of my research findings and approaches and I developed two research projects, dealing with vulnerable migrants, for postdoctoral grants.

In 2014, I was also a postdoctoral research assistant at the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire. I collaborated on an interdisciplinary research project founded by the FSA in Scotland, investigating the influence of the food environment and social deprivation on food and drink purchased by secondary school pupils.

My research interests are transnationalism and globalisation, identity and ethnicity, food, health and consumption, migration, qualitative and comparative research. During my stay at the  EUI as a Max Weber Fellow (SNF postdoctoral grant), my research will focus on cultural diversity and the ethnic food businesses run by Sri Lankan and Eritrean refugees, within a transnational and comparative perspective.