Marco Junio Coccari (* 1994, Lugo) graduated in Modern Philology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and since 2021 has been enrolled in the XXXVII cycle of the PhD course in "Humanistic Studies. Tradition and Contemporaneity' at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is presenting a medieval history project entitled 'L'ordine dei Crociferi nell'Italia dei secoli XII-XIII', conducted under the scientific supervision of Prof. Maria Pia Alberzoni and Prof. Dr. Guido Cariboni.

Since 2021 he has been a member of the Paul Maria Baumgarten Institut für Papsttumsforschung of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

His areas of research focus on the history of religious orders, pilgrimage and hospital institutions in medieval Italy in the 11th-13th centuries.