Giovanni Cadioli studied Russian and East European studies at the Universities of Bologna, Budapest, and Oxford. His Doctoral research at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, focused on Soviet economic reform in the 1940s-1960s period. After he obtained his Doctorate in 2018, he worked as junior postdoc (borsista di ricerca) at the Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences (DiSSGeA) of the University of Padua, contributing to the “Daily Bread”. The rise of the Global Wheat Market (1840-1914) project, focusing on grain trade from the port of Odessa (2019-2020) and as Teaching Fellow at Sciences Po - Le Havre Campus (2019-2021). In 2020 he joined the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, after having won a two-year postdoc (assegno di ricerca) tied to the An environmental history of the War. The Ortles Cevedale Theatre from 1914 until the post-war rehabilitation project. His current research focuses on the late-Soviet period and early post-Soviet era. Its aim is to discern which international economic connections were built across the socialist camp and beyond and how these evolved after 1991. He still teaches at Sciences Po (campuses of Le Havre and Reims) as well as at the University of Milan-Bicocca.