Marco obtained his PhD in 2010 with a thesis on statistical learning for relational and structured data which received a best PhD dissertation award. He has been a visiting scholar of Université Pierre & Marie Curie and Aalborg, and held research positions at the universities of Florence, Siena, Bologna, and Modena and Reggio-Emilia, where he became an associate professor in 2020. He is a visiting fellow of the European University Institute. He is an expert in machine learning and deep learning, with applications in many domains including natural language processing. He has a long-standing collaboration with members of the Language Technologies Lab through joint research projects and the co-supervision of PhD and master students.