Giuseppe Vinelli was born in San Giovanni Rotondo, in the province of Foggia, Italy. He graduated in energy engineering with a bachelor's degree from the University of Bologna in 2016 and subsequently studied engineering physics at the Milan Polytechnic for his master's degree. During his master's thesis he joined the QUPLAS project which aims to study the effects of the earth's gravitational field on antimatter atoms. In 2021 he became a doctoral student at LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), University of Florence, continuing to collaborate on the QUPLAS project.