1988 BA & MA ("Laurea") in Classics (University of Bologna), 1990 DEA (diploma of specialisation) in History of ancient Christianity (University of Lausanne), 1995 PhD in Armenian Studies (Catholic University of Milan)

Invited Maître de conférence, EPHE, Paris (1995), Visiting scholar, New York University (2012), Visiting scholar, Harvard University (2013-2014), Current President of the International Association of Armenian Studies (AIEA), Current President of the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC), Co-director of the collection Armenian Texts and Studies (Brill), Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), Member of the Scientific Board of the History and Memory Research Fund (Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul), Member of the committee of several other academic collections, journals or international projects

Full professor and Head of the Chair of Armenian Studies at the University of Geneva, Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Paris), Member of the Accademia Ambrosiana (Milan)