Valerio graduated in Social Anthropology at the University of Neuchâtel (2004) and holds a PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University (2009). He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at CRIA-IUL (FCT, 2010-2014), and a Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva (SNSF, 2014-2017). His investigations, grounded in ethnographic research in Cuba and Spain, have focused on the economic, social and cultural flows generated by international tourism and migration, with theoretical interests spanning three main areas of concern: the economy and its margins, the transformations of intimacy, and the politics of mobility. Valerio is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID, Geneva) and Research Associate at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CRIA-IUL). He is the Principal Investigator for the project "Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the 'Good Life' in Times of Crisis" (ERC Starting Grant, 2018-2023). Linking three subprojects in Spain, Ecuador, and Cuba, this new research aims to contribute to: 1) the study of morality, ethics and what counts as "good life", 2) the study of the field of economic practice, its definition, value regimes, and 'crises', and 3) the study of migratory aspirations, projects, and trajectories.