About

I am an Associate Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Previously, I served as a Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-b) at the Department of Economics, University of Bergamo, and as a Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-a) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Dublin under the supervision of Prof. Brendan Murphy, affiliated with the Insight and Vistamilk SFI Research Centre.  

My full CV is available here

Research

My research focuses on the development of flexible statistical methodologies to model high-dimensional and complex structured data, arising from different applied frameworks. More specifically, I am particularly interested on latent variable models, on the density-based formulation of the clustering problem and on the challenges arising when dealing with spectroscopic data. Recently, I started working on inferential problems arising in high-dimensional settings as for example when dealing with spatio-temporal data.
My main research interests are:

• Mixture models and model-based clustering
  
• Modal clustering
  
• Graphical models
  
• Variable selection and dimensionality reduction
  
• Latent variable models
  
• Inferential procedure for high-dimensional data
  
• Computational statistics
  
• Chemometrics

Education

• [2016-2020] - PhD in Statistics, University of Padova
        Supervisor Prof. Giovanna Menardi
        Thesis title: Climbing modes and exploring mixtures: a journey in density-based clustering (Link)

• [2014-2016] - Master Degree in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova
        Final degree: 110/110 cum laude

• [2011-2014] - Bachelor Degree in Statistics, Econimics and Finance, University of Padova
        Final degree: 110/110 cum laude