Giovanni was awarded a PhD (2014) at the University of Pisa (Italy) where he worked on the conservation genetics of Red-legged Partridge and other galliformes in the group led by Professor Filippo Barbanera. Subsequently, he worked as Postdoctoral Researcher on bird and mammal population and evolutionary genetics at Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) in Seville (Spain), the National University of Singapore, the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University (Japan) and BIOPOLIS/CIBIO in Porto (Portugal). He is now affiliated with the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain), where he is working on the population genomics of the Wood Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus).