Matteo Scotto holds a Master in European Governance and Regulation at the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of Bonn. He previously studied European languages and international relations in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the United States.

He is now a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Bonn and fellow of the research project RUB-Europadialoge at the University of Bochum, financed by the Mercator Foundation. His work focuses on the understanding the new rationale of Transatlantic Relation in the XXI Century. He worked two and half years at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), a national agency of the institutions of higher education in Germany in Bonn serving in the European Department.

He currently works as Junior Fellow at the German-Italian Centre for European Excellence Villa Vigoni, an institution founded by the German Federal Republic and the Italian Republic with the aim of fostering Italian-German relations in a European context.