After completing his studies in Philosophy and Theology with a Licentiate in Christian Anthropology, he graduated in Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and obtained a Doctorate in Pastoral Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Fr. Skoda is a Professor of Pastoral Theology and Human Mobility at the Pontifical Urbanian University; Executive Director of SIMI, an institute specializing in interdisciplinary research and training on migration; Director for Europe and Africa of SIMN, an organization that supports, promotes and coordinates the socio-pastoral action of the Scalabrinian Missionaries globally.