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- May 2008 – Aug. 2009: Advisor for Media and Communication, Sherpa’s Office for the G8/G20 negotiations – G8 Summit 2009, Rome
- Feb. 2004 – July 2004: Consultant for Public Communication,Independent Media Commission, OSCE – Mission in Kosovo, Pristina
- Oct. 2003 – May 2004: Media consultant to Office of Prime Minister – Temporary International Administration of Kosovo,United Nation Mission in Kosovo, Pristina
- 2004 – 2006: Freelance researcher, GPF & Associati, Research Institute for Social Change, Consumption and Communication, Milan
- 2001 –2002: R&D Coordinator, Nextmedialab Multimedia Solutions and Consulting, Milan
- 1999 –2000: Assistant to the Secretary General of IIOP,UNESCO, Paris
- 1996 –1998: Marketing Assistant, TIM - Telecom Italia Mobile, Milan
- 2011-2012: Class Teacher, LSE100, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 2010-2012: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Spring 2009: Lecturer in Media and Globalization, University of Malta/Campus Link
- 2005 – 2008: Teaching Assistan/Instructor, New York University
- Spring 2005: Lecturer, “Chargé de cours”, in Social and Psychological Factors in Design, Department of Environmental Design - Université de Montréal
- 2003: Teaching assistant in Multimedia Communication and Design, Prof. Vito Di Bari, Department of Design – Politecnico Milano
- to date: Ph.D Candidate, Media and Communications, LSE
- 2009: MA/M.Phil. Language and Literature, New York University
- 2003: Graduate Studies in Communication Sciences and Technologies “Laurea” degree with the highest qualification of 110/110 cum laude, IULM University, Milan
- 2011: Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Scholarship
- 2011: Silverstone Fellowship, POLIS, London School of Economics and Political Sciences;
- 2010: FAI – Casa Italiana NY – Research Grant;
- 2009-2011: LSE Studentship, London School of Economics and Political Sciences;
- 2008 – 2010: Research Grant, University of Trento;
- 2008: Di Croci Fellowship, Travel Grant;
- 2005 – 2009: MacCracken Scholarship: New York University;
- 2005: Open Society Fellowship, Tuition for the Summer University program of the Central European University (CEU);
- 2005: EUREX Fellowship, Seminar on Urban Transformations, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion;
- 2004: Marie Curie Fellowship, European Research Forum on Migration and Ethnic Relations;
- Glamorizing Sick Bodies, Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, July 2010
- Italian Islamophobia: the Church, the Media and the Xenophobic Right At ‘Representing Islam: Comparative Perspectives‘. University of Manchester, 5-6 September 2008
- Islamophobia and Elite Discourses: An Italian Specificity in Europe? At ‘Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere‘, 3rd Muslim Studies Conference at Michigan State University, 3-4 April 2008
- Sick City: Comparing Segregation and Spatial Patterns of HIV/AIDS in New York City. Segregation in the Changing Urban Scenario, Prof. Haeussermann (Humboldt-Universitat, Germany), Prof. (King’s College, United Kingdom). XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology: The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World, Durban, July 2006
- What’s wrong with Europe? Screening conflict and identity within France and Britain’s suburbs. Urban Identity and the Challenge of Globalization: landscapes and identities, Prof. Losacco and Faccioli (University of Bologna, Italy). Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association: Eyes on the City, University of Urbino, July 2006
- “Letteratura massimalista: Il moderno j’accuse di Luther Blissett. Percorsi Postmoderni” Graduate Conference: Authors and Approaches beyond the Italian Canon, Harvard University, April 2006
- Replication of landscape and ideological inverse of nature.Globalization and Architecture workshop, Prof. Sklair (LSE). International Conference: Cities as social fabric, Sciences Po. Paris, June 2005
- HIV and Mass Migration. From Immigration Politics to Migration Management: Changes in Migration Governance, European Research Forum on Migration and Ethnic Relations (EuroFor), September 2004
- (2011) “Italian Islamophobia: the Church, the Media and the Xenophobic Right” in Islam in its International Context: Comparative Perspectives (eds) Cambridge Scholars Press. Spring 2011
- (2011) “ламуризация Çбольного телаÈ: ВИЧ/СПИД в рекламе” in Teoria Modi: Odezda, Telo, Kulture [Fashion Theory Russia: the Journal of Dress, Body and Culture] Issue 18. Winter 2010-2011. Pp. 153-175. [Russian Translation of "Glamorizing Sick Bodies", 2010]
- (2010) “Glamorizing Sick Bodies: How Commercial Advertising Has Changed the Representation of HIV/AIDS” in Social Semiotics, Vol. 20 N. 2
- (2007) “What’s wrong with Muslims? Screening conflict and identity within France and Britain’s suburbs” in Framing Globalization: Visual Perspectives, P. Facioli and J. Gibbons (eds) Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- (2006) ‘Bareback movies: men, fantasies and semen exchange‘ in AIDS 2006 – XVI International AIDS Conference: Abstract no. CDD0329
- (2002) Editor, “Dizionario Digitale”, Di Bari, Il Sole 24 ore, Milano.
» Articles
- (2011) “The politics of fear and the rise of far-right extremism in Italy” in Re-Public
- (2011) “The underclass in revolt” in Honk! Magazine Issue #5, 31 October 2011
- (2011) “Italian Spring: The Berlusconi era may be nearing its end” in openDemocracy, 6 June 2011
- (2011) “Humanitarian wars and rejected refugee” in openDemocracy, 17 April 2011
» Book Reviews
- (2011) ‘The European Public Sphere and The Media: Europe in Crisis’ in Journal of Language and Politics 10:2. 2011. iii, 161 pp. (pp. 287–291). Book Review
- Prof. Lilie Chouliaraki, Media and Communications, LSE
- Dr. Jennifer Jackson-Preece, European Institute, LSE
- Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiat, Professor, Departments of Italian Studies and History, NYU
- Prof. Stefano Albertini, Clinical Associate Profesor, Director of Casa Zerilli-Marimò, NYU
- Prof. Vito Di Bari, Professor of New Media at Politecnico Milano
- Prof. Stefan Tischer, Universitè de Montrèal
- Dr. Monica Fabris, GPF & Associati Spa – Gruppo Reti, Milano
- Prof. Gianpietro Caliari, Diplomatic Office, Italian Prime Minister
- Dr. Bajram Rexhepi, Former Prime Minister, Government of Kosovo