Matteo Bonelli holds a Bachelor and Master's Degree in Law from the University of Torino, Italy (2012) and a LL.M. in European Law (cum laude, 2013) and a PhD (cum laude, 2019) from Maastricht University. 

From September 2014 to August 2018, Matteo was a PhD researcher at the International and European Law Department of the Faculty of Law. He defended his thesis ('A Union of Values: Safeguarding Democracy, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in the EU Member States') in June 2019. 

From September 2018 to August 2019, he was a Post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan.

He then returned to Maastricht University as an Assistant Professor of EU law. Between January and May 2020, he was an Emile Noël Fellow, and the Jean Monnet Center of New York Univeristy (NYU). 

He is a member of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) and sits on the editorial board of European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst).