Christian Costamagna has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies South Eastern Europe (CAS SEE) of the University of Rijeka, a Visegrad Fund fellow at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest, and an EEGA Leibniz Campus fellow at the University of Leipzig (Department of History). He participated in various international conferences, seminars, and summer schools, and lectured at universities. Among his main research interests, related to the recent past, are the causes of the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Kosovo War, and the politics in Serbia in the 1990s, he is also an observer of the current political issues in the Western Balkans. Christian is currently conducting research on the Kosovo War and the 1999 NATO military intervention against Yugoslavia.

Christian Costamagna earned his PhD degree in Historical Sciences from the University of Eastern Piedmont with a doctoral dissertation about the political reforms in Serbia and Yugoslavia and the ascent to power of Milošević during the second half of the 1980s. He holds a MA in International Relations and Human Rights from the University of Turin.