Stefano is a scholar of biblical studies, languages, and theology. After many years of teaching at the University of Oxford, he joined AC as Director of Learning and Teaching. With a passion for contributing meaningfully to the teaching and learning experience, he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and has held a number of academic leadership roles at various institutions. He possesses the rare expertise of someone with multiple doctorates from the UK and Italy in Theology and Biblical Studies. He has also held or continues to hold research and/or teaching posts at various universities, including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, King’s College London, University of London, Chichester University, Pretoria University, North-West University, Sheffield University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He teaches and conducts research in the fields of biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, Hebrew and Greek languages and semantics, biblical and systematic-historical theology, pedagogy, reception history, the arts and theology, and intertextual studies. He is a member of numerous learned societies such as the SBL, SNTS, FBS, SOTS, BNTS, NAHP, and research committees and boards. Besides chairing research projects and grants, and serving on editorial boards, he has been the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Biblical and Theological Research. He is the chief founding Editor of the SCM Press Book Series Biblical Intertextuality and of the AOSIS open-access peer-reviewed journal Integrated Biblical and Theological Studies. Besides several contributions already in contract as author or editor, his publications include numerous articles and chapters for Brill, De Gruyter, Routledge, T&T Clarks, Mohr Siebeck, and many more, and 4 books: The Meaning of the Death of Christ-A Historical-Exegetical Reading of John 19:34 (in Italian, EE, 2014); A Linguistic-Theological Exegesis of Ezekiel as Môphēt - “I have made you a sign” (Ezekiel 12:6) (Brill, 2024); Why did Jesus die? …and immediately blood and water came out (in Italian; Universitas Studiorum, 2025); and his recent acclaimed book by Routledge (2025) Infinite Risk Theology: ‘Remember that Christ risked all’, described as “the first major attempt at the topic, it is very possible that this book will be cited for centuries to come.”

FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)

DPhil/PhD in Systematic-Historical Theology (Oxford)

PhD in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (KCL)

PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity (FTP)

MA (Research) in Historical and Religious Studies; MTh and BA in Theology/Biblical Studies [Hons]; Diploma-License in Music; BA [Hons] in Religious Studies; AA in Biblical Studies