After finishing the high school "Petro Nini Luarasi", he entered the Faculty of History-Philology of the University of Tirana, History-Geography branch.
In 1979 he started in the Institute of History in Tirana (Albanian: Instituti i Historisë), holding the position of the "scientific personnel" until 2013.
From 2005–2008 he served also as director of the Institute of History, and editor-in-chief of the Studime historike periodical.
[1] Since 2009, he is an Associated Academic (Albanian: Akademik i asociuar) of the Academy of Science of Albania.
[3] As an author and co-author, he lists many publications, profiled in the history of the Albanians within former Yugoslavia areas.