SHORT CV
POSITION
2023 – present: Full Professor in Statistics, MOX, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
2015 – 2023: Associate Professor in Statistics, same institution (with National Full Professor Qualification in Statistics since 2016-I).
2014 – 2015: Associate Professor tenure track in Statistics, same institution.
2010 – 2014: Assistant Professor in Statistics, same institution.
2006 – 2010: Postdoc, same institution.
2006: Postdoc, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, UK.
EDUCATION
2006: PhD in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Pavia, Italy.
2005: MARIE-CURIE visiting PhD fellowship, 6th Framework Program European Union; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, UK.
2002: Laurea cum laude (Master with Honors) in Economics, University of Pavia.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
2024 – 2027: Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
2024 – 2025: Co-Editor (Methods) of Statistical Methods & Applications.
2016 – 2023: Co-Editor in Chief of Statistics & Probability Letters.
2021 – 2024: Associate Editor of Bernoulli.
2015 – 2024: Associate Editor of Stat.
2015 – 2024: Associate Editor of The International Journal of Biostatistics.
COMMISSION OF TRUST
2023: Panel Member for ERC STARTING GRANTS, panel PE1.
2021: Panel Member for ERC STARTING GRANTS, panel PE1.
2019: Invited to act as Panel Member for ERC STARTING GRANTS, panel PE1, of future calls.
2023, 2022 and 2021: Invited to act as Panel Member for individual grants by Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese public funding agency for R&D). Panel: Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences.
2012: Panel Member for young investigator grants FIRB FUTURO IN RICERCA 2012, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. Panel: Mathematics, Computer science and Engineering.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES HELD
2022 – present: Elected vice-President of the scientific board of GRASPA-SIS, the Research Section of the Italian Statistical Society for Statistical Applications to Environmental Problems.
2016 – 2020: Elected member of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
2013 – 2019: Chair of the Specialized Research Team CODA – Complex data structures and Object Data Analysis, Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.
PLENARY and KEYNOTE LECTURES
2023: 6th Spatial Statistics conference, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A..
2023: 54th Journées de Statistique de la Société Française de Statistique, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2022: Conference on Statistical Methods and Models for Complex Data, 2022, Padova, Italy.
2019: 7th Stu Hunter Research Conference, Varese, Italy.
2017: 32nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, IWSM 2017, Groningen, Netherlands.
2016: 37th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, CASI 2016, Limerick, Ireland.
2012: Barcelona BioMed Conference, Spain.
2012: Workshop on High dimensional and dependent functional data, 2012, Bristol, UK.
I also received invitations to give the following plenary lectures, that I had to decline:
2023: 32th International Statistics Symposium, Bogotà, Colombia.
2019: 21st European Young Statisticians Meeting, EYSM 2019, Belgrade, Serbia.
2018: International workshop on Functional Data Analysis, Iasi, Romania.
2017: 4th International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics, IWFOS 2017, Coruña, Spain.
2016: International workshop on Functional Data Analysis, Oviedo, Spain.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
2025: 39th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, IWSM 2025, Limerick, Ireland.
2025: 6th International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics, IWFOS 2025, Novara, Italy.
2022: 17th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, IFCS 2022, Porto, Portugal.
2021: 29th Conference of the International Environmetrics Society, TIES 2021, London, UK.
2021: 35th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, IWSM 2021, Bilbao, Spain.
2018: 23rd International Conference in Computational Statistics, COMPSTAT 2018, Iasi, Romania.
2017: 31st European Meeting of Statisticians, EMS 2017, Helsinki, Finland.
2017: 27th Conference of The International Environmetrics Society, TIES 2017, Bergamo, Italy.
2017: Italian Statistical Society Meeting, SIS 2017, Florence, Italy.
2016: 9th International Conference of the ERCIM working group on Computing and Statistics; 2016, Seville, Spain.
2014: 7th International Conference of the ERCIM working group on Computing and Statistics; 2014, Pisa, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS
I have coauthored more than 100 publications in international journals and scientific volumes, among which articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. B, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Applied Statistics, Statistical Science, Biometrika, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Statistics in Medicine, Bernoulli.