Between 2016 and 2019, I was responsible to bridge the social and technical aspects of the use of IoT-based technologies to create social and economic value. Based at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, this work focused a series of interdisciplinary projects that developed blockchain technology for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Travel and other consumer services and was part of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity.

Between 2012 and 2016, I worked as a digital anthropologist for the UCL-based project Why We Post that explored the uses and consequences of social and mobile media in a global context. This work resulted in my own monography Social Media in Southeast Italy: Crafting Ideals and a collective book How the World Changed Social Media, both published Open Acces by UCL Press.

In 2015 I co-designed the e-learning course Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media for FutureLearn UK. The course has attracted 48k+ global learners to date.

Between 2017 and 2019 I contributed to a series of academic and business reports published by organizations such as the Royal Academy of Engineering, IoT UK and Digital Catapult and advised policy makers and one major UK institution.

In 2013 I obtained my PhD from the Department of Anthropology at UCL with a thesis on boredom and social alignment in rural Romania. The thesis discusses people's sense of appropriate alignment between the external pressures of moral and political economy and the internal subjective sense of aspiration of who one wants to be in relation with the perceived modern life.