Rava Azeredo da Silveira obtained his B.S. in physics at the University of Geneva and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

In parallel to his appointment at IOB, he is a CNRS Directeur de Recherche at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, in Paris. He was also a Global Scholar at Princeton University.