Filippo is a Roy McMurtry Fellow in Legal History and a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto.

Trained as a psychologist in Italy and the US, he collaborates with the WHO's MiNDbank project in retrieving health and disability legal sources around the world. His research focuses on the emergence of confinement provisions in the English-speaking world and their relationship with stigma. His work has appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and History of Psychiatry. He created mindthepast, an online resource for mental health and disability rights in history.