Francesco is a Senior Research Associate affiliated with the Machine Learning Research Group at the University of Oxford, hosted by Professor Stephen Roberts. 

Previously, he was a Research Associate and a member of the ELSA Network of Excellence at the University of Oxford, hosted by Marta Kwiatkowska. He held a Postdoc position at the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH, where he worked with Stefan Bauer and Cristian Rojas. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany, where he was supervised by Tobias Friedrich.