Before joining Audencia he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at Bocconi University (Italy), where he received his PhD. His research is focused on banking management and regulation, insurance, mutual fund and pension fund performances and his work has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. He has been visiting scholar at Cass Business School (UK), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), and University of Tilburg (the Netherlands).