EDUCATION:
Master of Science in Economic Statistics, University of Padova (November 1988 - March 1996).
Phd in Statistical and Mathematical Methods for the Economic and Social Research, University of Perugia (1996 - 1999)

WORK EXPERIENCE:
Assistant professor in Statistics at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia (since 2005).
Researcher Fellow in Statistics, University of Brescia (2001-2004).
Researcher Fellow in Statistics, European Institute of Oncology, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Milano, Italy (2000).
Visiting scholar at Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Science, University of California San Diego (USA) (Feb.-June 1998).

ASSIGNMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS:
Member of the Italian Statistical Society (since 2006).
Member of the Association for Applied Statistics (since 2020).
Member of the Editorial Secretariat of the scientific SCOPUS “Statistica & Applicazioni” (since 2013); from 2016 Coordinator of the Editorial Staff.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD "Analytics for Economics and Business", Universities of Bergamo and Brescia (2013-2016).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD "Analytics for Economics and Management", University of Brescia (from 2017).

HONOURS AND AWARDS: Award FFABR 2018 “Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca” (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Italy).

RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Member of the Research Unit PRIN “Measuring the quality of work in nonprofit organizations” (2004-2006).
Member of the Research Unit PRIN “Multilevel models for the evaluation of job-quality in the social services sector” (2001-2003).
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Rasch analysis, Causal Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Decision Trees, Time series Analysis, Sensory Analysis.