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 at Université Pierre & Marie Curie and at Aalborg University. He 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 now an associate professor at the University of Florence (Unifi). 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.