Born in Savona in 1982,[1] Ruggeri carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Genoa, graduating with a BA in international and diplomatic sciences in 2005.
In 2006, he completed an MA in international relations at the University of Essex, where he also carried out his doctoral studies supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) studentship;[1][2] his PhD was awarded in 2011 for his thesis "It depends: the spatial context of civil war".
[7] In 2019, Ruggeri was named as a co-investigator on an £895,000 research grant from the ESRC to explore "the consequences of United Nations peacekeeping withdrawal".
[8] He has created a Hub of Conflict, Peace and Security at the University of Oxford aiming "to serve as a platform for the international community of researchers and practitioners, enabling them to connect, learn from each other, and to collaborate in preventing or mitigating conflict, and shaping a more secure future[9]".
In 2020, Ruggeri published with Vincenzo Bove and Chiara Ruffa a book for the Oxford University Press entitled "Composing Peace", the research for the book was funded by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the British Academy and Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).