2014 (November) – Current
Director of the Master Course on Islam in Europe, University of Padua, now Master course in "Religions, Politics and Citizenship", in collaboration with Instituto de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores de Granada.

2013 (October 1st) – Current
President of the master’s degree course (“Corso di laurea magistrale”) in Sociology at the University of Padua, now master's degree course in "Cultures, Education and Global Societies"

2004 – Current
Professor of Sociology, University of Padua, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology

2001-2007
Secretary of the Sociology of Religion section of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS)

2001-2004
Lecturer, University of Padua, Department of Sociology (tenured after three years)

1999-2001
Annual Lecturer of Sociology, University of Padua

1998-1999
Annual Lecturer of Sociology, “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice

1994-1999
Faculty member and Assistant, with teaching duties, of Urban Sociology, at the Polytechnic of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, and at the University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences

Member and co-founder of FIDR (International Forum for Democracy & Religions)

Member and co-founder of Eurislam

Associated member of the CISCOW (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Islam in the Contemporary World) of the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, and of the research group on Islam and modernity (GRIM) at the University of Padua

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yearbook on the Sociology of Islam, of the review Religioni e Società, of the scientific committee of the review Africa e Mediterraneo.

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