Marco completed his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Co-Partnership with the University of Bayreuth, Italy, on land conflicts in Togo. In 2013, he joined the ERC-Consolidator Grant Project SWAB (Shadows of Slavery in West Africa and Beyond) with a research on the legacy of slavery and labour exploitation on the highlands of Madagascar. He taught Political Anthropology at the University of Pavia and Social Anthropology at the University of Bologna, Italy. In TAAD, he is carrying out a research on aging Eritrean and Senegalese migrants in Milano.