Matteo Millan is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of History, Geography and Ancient History of the Padua University. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Padua in 2011, Matteo was a Gerda Henkel Foundation Marie-Curie M4Human Programme (Marie-Curie COFUND) Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford (2013-2015) and an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin (2015-2016). In 2015 he was awarded an ERC-Starting Grant for the project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe on the Eve of the First World War”, which he coordinated until 2022. In November 2023, Matteo won an ERC-Consolidator Grant with the project “A continent disarmed? Gun culture, gun control and the making of Western Europe”, which he will coordinate for the next five years. His areas of research include the study of the Italian Resistance information network, Fascist squadrismo and, more recently, armed associationism in Europe. He has published two monographs and numerous articles in Italian and international journals.