Andrea studied sociology in Italy and Germany. After graduating in sociology, he gained a postgraduate Master in Public Health at the Charité, Universitäts-medizin Berlin and completed his PhD in 2016. Subsequently, he moved to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s national centre for disease, with a postdoctoral position. Since 2017, he has been junior-professor in gerontology at the University of Vechta in Lower Saxony, where his research focuses on informal caregiving and migrant care work.
