I am an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track Researcher) of Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova (Italy). My research interests are prevalently focused on developing clustering methods based on probability distributions (model-based clustering) both in the Frequentist and in the Bayesian paradigms, with particular emphasis to the applications in genomics and astronomy.

 

Education

• (2016-2020) Ph.D in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Italy)

• (2014-2016) MSc in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Italy)

• (2011-2014) BSc in Statistics and Information Management, University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy)

 

Visiting

• (07/2022-08/2022) Visiting Post-doc, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (USA), Prof. Stephanie Hicks

• (04/2018-10/2018) Visiting research scholar, Imperial College London, London (UK), Prof. David A. van Dyk

 

Awards

• Winner of the 2025 ISBA Biostats and Pharma Junior Researcher Award, awarded by The ISBA Biopharm Section (link)

• Winner of the Best Student Paper Toyota Motor Corporation Award at IWSM 2019, Guimarães, Portugal

 

Membership

• International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)

• Italian Statistical Society (SIS)

• International CHASC Astro-Statistics Collaboration