I am a socio-anthropologist of religion and culture and I work on Islam, Sufism, Christianity, and alternative and marginalised spiritualities. I study Sufism in Europe and North Africa, LGBTQ and feminist religious movements in Islamic and Catholic contexts, conspiracy theories, religion, and extreme right movements in Europe.

I am a sociologist of religion and culture, specializing in mysticism, esotericism, and spirituality. I hold a PhD in Sociology from Scuola Normale Superiore and EHESS (2016) and have held research positions at KU Leuven, CNRS, Ca’ Foscari, and Harvard Divinity School. Currently, I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the University of Lausanne and Harvard University (2024-2027). Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow all’Università di Bologna (Project Religiomics).

Finally, since 2017 I am the Director of the "Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities" at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice.

I'm also interested in photography, illustration, comics, and graphic novels, as instruments for disseminating research and intellectual work, but also as "heterographies", allowing new perspectives and enhancing our "moral imagination". Starting from this exploration was created the Invisible Lines.