Associate Professor in Classics, was elected corresponding member to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich and Socius to the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino in Florence. He received a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He served as visiting Scholar (October–December 2015) at the Centre Michel de Boüard — CRAHAM (Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales) at the University of Caen.