2004 - 2007: University of Siena. Post-graduate scholarship in Philosophy co-financed by the Italian Ministry for University and Research.
2005: DITALS - Certificate for teaching Italian as a foreign language, Università per Stranieri di Siena. Siena, Italy.
2003: PhD in Philosphy, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
1998: MA, BA in Philosophy (including Studies in Italian Language and Literature, Italian History and Latin), Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy.