He was awarded a PhD by the Department of Finance at Bocconi University in Spring 2014. His research interests span empirical asset pricing, Bayesian econometrics, commodity markets, and cryptocurrencies. His papers have been presented at conferences organized by the American Economic Association (AEA), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Econometric Society, the European Finance Association (EFA), the European Economic Association (EEA), the Society of Financial Studies (SFS), and the Society of Economic Dynamics (SED). His publications include the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and the Journal of Financial Econometrics.