Curriculum

ACADEMIC POSITION

  • 2016-present: since 1 February 2016, Associate Professor of Statistics at the “Department of Economics and Management”, University of Ferrara (Italy) (permanent position).
  • 2010-2016: from 1 December 2010 to 31 January 2016, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the “Faculty of Economics” and “Department of Economics and Management”, University of Ferrara (Italy).

 

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

  • Member of the Italian Statistical Society
  • Member of Research Data Alliance (RDA), international organization dedicated to scientific research in “Data Science” since 2018.
  • Member of CMStatistics (ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics) as an expert of “Non-Parametric Statistics”, since 12 January 2020

 

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

  • 2019:   training event on "Quality Assurance 2019" concerning the evaluation of the quality of university courses, organized by the Quality Control Committee of University of Ferrara on 10 June 2019.
  • 2007-2010: from January 2007 to November 2010, research fellow at the Department of Mathematics of University of Ferrara for the project “Statistics applied to University evaluation” (supervisor: Prof. Valeria Ruggiero).
  • 2007:   PhD in “Statistics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences”, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua (3 years fellowship). Dissertation title: “Nonparametric methods for performance analysis with applications to University evaluation”. Supervisors: Prof. Fortunato Pesarin e Prof. Luigi Salmaso.
  • 2007:   Training course about University Data Ware House for computing statistics about students at University of Ferrara on 13, 14 e 15 February 2007 (20 hours)
  • 2003:   from 1 June to 31 December 2003: research scholarship for the project “Nonparametric statistical methods for the analysis of experimental and observational data with applications in biomedicine”. Supervisor: Prof. Fortunato Pesarin (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua)
  • 2003-present: member of the research group “Nonparametric statistical methods” coordinated by Prof. Fortunato Pesarin (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua) e by Prof. Luigi Salmaso (Department of Engineering and Management, University of Padua)
  • 1998:   Training course about “Warehouse: fiscality, accounting and laws” by Forema on 14 December 1998 (8 hours).
  • 1997:   Training course “Quality and Organization” by Forema from 17 February 1997 to 20 June 1997 (680 hours: 408 hours for theory + 272 hours stage in a company).
  • 1996:   Degree in Statistical and Economic Sciences on 27 June, at University of Padua, final grades 108/110. Degree thesis “Migrations within Italian metropolitan areas” – Prof. Lucio Malfi.

 

PROJECTS’ AND ARTICLES’ REVIEW

2016:

  • Reviewer of a Scientific Project Proposals on behalf of the Czech Science Foundation (the main public funding agency in the Czech Republic supporting scientific research)
  • Review of the book “Understanding Business Statistics”, Freed N, Jones S, Bergquist T, 2014, Wiley, on behalf of ISEDI (De Agostini), to evaluate the possibility of translation into Italian and publication of the translated book

 

Referee for the following journals:

“Applied System Innovation”, “China Economic Review”, “Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods”, “Computational Statistics and Data Analysis”, “IEEE-Transactions on Nuclear Science”, “International Review of Applied Economics”, “Journal of Applied Statistics”, “Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference”, “Journal of Intellectual Capital”, “Journal of Multivariate Analysis”, “Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods”, “Journal of Statistical Software”, “Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation”, “Mathematics”, “Quality & Quantity”, “Scientific Reports”, “Statistics & Computing”, “Social Indicators Research”, “Statistica Applicata-Italian Journal of Applied Statistics”, “Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal”, “Symmetry”, “Sustainability”, “Test”, “Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment”

 

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

Since 2017: Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Statistics

Since 2018: member of the Editorial Board of the Baltic Journal of Modern Computing

 

CURRENT ACADEMIC COURSES

- Professor of “Statistics” (students’ group A and C), University of Ferrara, 1st level degree in Economics (42 hours)

- Professor of “Statistics for Economics and Business”, University of Ferrara, Master degree in Economics, Management and Policies for Global Challenges” (48 hours, in English)

-Professor of Demography B, University of Ferrara, Medical Area School of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (8 hours)

 

PRESENTATIONS (AS A SPEAKER) AT MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

  • 31st International Biometric Conference-IBC 2022, Riga (Latvia), July 10-15 2022, Title of the presentation: “Permutation multiple testing for multivariate two-sample problems with small sample sizes” (coautore: Michela Borghesi)
  • International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics-ISNPS 2022, Paphos (Cyprus), June 20-24 2022, Title of the presentation: “Time series comparisons: a permutation approach” (coautore: Michela Borghesi)
  • 9th International Conference on Computers Communications and Control-ICCCC 2022, Oradea (Romania), May 16-20 2022, Title of the presentation: “Two-sample permutation test for comparing marginal probabilities of multivariate Bernoulli distributions” (coautore: Michela Borghesi)
  • International conference IES 2022, Capua (Italy), 27-28 January 2022, Title of the presentation: “A permutation test on the relationship between Circular Economy and form size” (coauthor: Michela Borghesi).
  • 12th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems-DAMSS 2021, Druskininkai (Lithuania), 2-4 December 2021. Title of the presentation: “Mental health effects of Covid-19 lockdown. Empirical findings and multivariate regression model.” (coauthor: Michela Borghesi)
  • 39th Scientific Conference Multivariate Statistical Analysis MSA 2021, Lodz (Poland), 8-10 November 2021. Title of the presentation: “Advances on Permutation Multivariate Analysis of Variance for Big Data” (coauthor: Getnet Melak Assegie).
  • 16th EIASM Interdisciplinary Conference on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital – Sustainability and Integrated Reporting, Governance and Value Creation, 23-24 September 2021. Title of the presentation: “The Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: a Large Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors” (coauthors: Stefano Zambon, Giuseppe Marzo, Arianna Pittarello e Laura Girella)
  • Third International Conference on Data Science and Social Research DSSR 2020, virtual conference, 10-11 December 2020. Title of the presentation: “Multivariate test for large datasets and small sample sizes”
  • Conference SUSAN SSACAB 2019, Cape Town (South Africa), 8-11 September 2019. Title of the presentation: “Permutation multivariate tests for treatment effect: theory and recent developments”
  • Joint Statistical Meeting, JSM 2019, Denver (USA), 27 July-1 August 2019. Title of the presentation: “Complex Testing Problems for Multivariate Data and Small Sample Sizes: a Nonparametric Approach”.
  • 10th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems-DAMSS 2018, Druskininkai (Lithuania), 29 November-1 December 2018. Title of the presentation: “Multivariate Permutation Test for a Randomized Controlled Trial in the Presence of Small Sample Sizes”.
  • SciDataCon-IDW 2018, Gaborone (Botswana), 5-8 November 2018. Title of the presentation: “Advances in Multivariate Tests for High Dimensional Response Variables”.
  • 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics/2018 IMS Annual Meeting on Probability and Statistics, Vilnius (Lithuania), 2-6 July 2018. Title of the poster presentation: “Two-sample multivariate test with high dimensional response”.
  • 4th Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS) 2018, Salerno (Italy), 11-15 June 2018. Title of the presentation: “Statistical Inference in Behavioral Economics: a permutation approach”. Chair of the session: Advances in Permutation Testing.
  • 15th workshop c.MET05. Title of the presentation “Tests for regression models: a permutation approach”, Prato, 7-8 June 2018. Chair of the session: Methods, Applied Economics, Business.
  • 10th International Conference on the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics - CMStatistics 2017, London (UK), 16th-18th December 2017. Title of the presentation: “Combined permutation tests for linear regression models”.
  • 9th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems-DAMSS 2017, Druskininkai (Lithuania), 30th November-2nd December 2017. Title of the presentation: “Combined permutation tests and finite sample consistency”.
  • 1/11/2017: Invited seminar entitled “Combined Distribution Free Testing Methods”, Department of Statistics (College of Natural Sciences), Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
  • 14/07/2017: Invited seminar entitled “Combined Nonparametric Tests”, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand)
  • 10/07/2017: Music Therapy Week Neurological Choirs Workshop, on advanced experimental research concerning the use of music as a therapy for neurological diseases, Center for Brain Research (Tamaki Innovation Campus), University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand)
  • International Conference on Robust Statistics – ICORS 2017, Wollongong (Australia), 3rd-7th July 2017. Title of the presentation: “Testing for anomalies in intertemporal choices: a nonparametric approach”.
  • 26/06/2017: Invited seminar entitled “Multivariate Nonparametric Tests”, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
  • 10/05/2017: Invited seminar entitled “Combined Permutation Tests”, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • 14th workshop c.MET05, Ferrara, 8-9 June 2017. Title of the presentation: “Tests of hypotheses on intertemporal choice anomalies”. Chair of the session: Migrations, Inequalities, Human Capital; chair of the session: Methods, Methodologies.
  • 22nd International Conference on Computational Statistics – COMPSTAT 2016, Oviedo (Spain), 23rd-26th August 2016. Title of the presentation: “A new composite indicator for sensorial data”.
  • 13th workshop c.MET05, Naples (Italy), 15-16 June 2016. Title of the presentation: “Ranking of multivariate populations in economics: a novel tool to face challenging problems”. Chair of the session: Ranking, Policy making, Sectors.
  • 60th World Statistics Congress – ISI 2015, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 26–31 July 2015. Title of the presentation: “A Nonparametric Multivariate Scatter-Based Ranking Method with Applications to Biomedical Research and Industrial Quality Management”.
  • 12th workshop c.MET05 “Industria internazionale e investimenti per i territori. Ripensare le politiche per la crescita e lo sviluppo” (International industry and investments for the territories. Rethinking policies for growth and development), Treviso (Italy), 10-12 June 2015. Title of presentation 1: “China Health Status: geographic imbalances, temporal dynamics, socio-economic and environmental explanatory factors”. Title of presentation 2: “National industrial development and “territorial industrial inclusion”: new evidences on the case of China”. Title of presentation 3: “European industrial policy facing the crisis: a methodological proposal for better decision-making”
  • Workshop dedicated to the presentation of the book “Ferrara 1861-2011. L’evoluzione socio-demografica della provincia per sistemi locali del lavoro nei 150 anni dell’Unità d’Italia” (Ferrara 1861-2011. Socio-demographic tendencies by work local systems during the 150 years since the unidication of Italy), Ferrara (Italy), 14 novembre 2014.
  • Workshop “Marketing e creazione del valore per il territorio” (Marketing and value creation for the territory), Ferrara (Italy), 27 October 2014. Title of presentation 1: “Profili, giudizi e desiderata degli ospiti del territorio: le principali evidenze di un’indagine campionaria” (Profiles, opinions and wishes of the guests of the territory: main results of a sample survey). Title of presentation 2: “L’impatto degli eventi sui flussi turistici” (The impact of events on touristic arrivals).
  • 11th workshop c.MET05 “Local  Innovation      and      International   Industry”, Ancona (Italy), 24-26 June 2014. Title of presentation 1: “Industrial Growth and Regional Disparities in China”. Title of presentation 2: “Politica industriale interventi strategici e fallimenti del governo. Alla ricerca di strumenti trasparenti utili a ridurre la discrezionalità del policy maker” (Industrial policy, strategic interventions and government failures. Searching for transparent and useful instruments for reducing the discretion of the policy maker).
  • 2nd Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS) 2014, Cadiz (Spain), 12-16 June 2014. Invited talk in the session “Permutation tests and related topics”. Title of presentation: “Conditional inference for territorial comparisons on the perception of odors”.
  • Joint Statistical Meeting 2013, Montreal (Canada), 3-8 August 2013. Title of presentation: “Inferential methods for comparing socio-economic population diversities”.
  • 10th Workshop c.MET05 “Governance nel territorio: sviluppo industriale sostenibile, politiche per l’innovazione e internazionalizzazione” (Territory governance: sustainable industrial development, policies for innovation and internationalization), Florence (Italy), 18-19 July 2013. Title of presentation: “Industrializzazione e squilibri territoriali in Cina” (Industrialization and territorial imbalances in China)
  • Seventh International Workshop on Simulation, Rimini (Italy), 21-25 May 2013. Title of presentation: “Two notions of consistency useful in permutation testing”.
  • Workshop dedicated to the presentation of the main results of the survey “Ferrara Città Universitaria. Qualità di vita degli studenti e impatto socio-economico sul territorio” (Ferrara city with University. Quality of students’ life and socio-economic impact on the territory), Ferrara (Italy), 4 June 2013.
  • Workshop in memory of Professor Antonio d’Atri, ten years after his death, Ferrara (Italy), 30 November 2012. Title of presentation: “Industrial Policies and Performances in Southern China”.
  • 1st Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS) 2012, Chalkidiki (Greece), 15-19 June 2012. Title of presentation: “Advances in permutation tests for covariates in a mixture model for preference data analysis”. Chair of the session: Resampling and related methods.
  • International Conference MMLV 2012 - Methods and Models for Latent Variables, Naples (Italy), 17-19 May 2012. Title of presentation: “Advances on inferential methods for heterogeneity comparisons”.
  • International Conference on Advances in Probability and Statistics – Theory and Applications, Hong Kong (China), 28-31 December, 2011. Title of presentation: “Permutation Multiple Tests on Ordering with application to the study of listening conditions in classrooms”.
  • Meeting CLADAG 2011 – 8th Scientific Meeting of the CLassification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society, Pavia (Italy), 7-9 September 2011. Title of presentation: “Nonparametric inference via permutation tests for CUB models”
  • Meeting IES 2011 –Innovation and Society, Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of Services, Florence (Italy), 30 May-1 June 2011. Title of presentation: “Statistical Analysis of the Perceived Quality and Customer Satisfaction of a ski school: the SESTO survey 2010”.
  • Meeting SIS 2011 – Statistics in the 150 years after unification of Italy, Bologna (Italy), 8-10 June 2011. Title of presentation: “Permutation test approach for the analysis of rating data”.
  • Joint Statistical Meeting 2010, Vancouver (Canada), 31 July-5 August 2010. Title of presentation: “Customer satisfaction survey on Passito wine with the application of a new approach to modelling discrete choices”.
  • MODA 9 – Model-Oriented Data Analysis and Optimal Design, Bertinoro-Bologna (Italy), 14-18 June 2010. Title of presentation: “Global performance score in industrial experiments with multivariate response and stratification”.
  • Satellite Conference SIS 2010, Statistics for Complex Problems: The Multivariate Permutation Approach and Related Topics, 14-15 June, Padua (Italy). Poster entitled “Statistical survey on Passito wine in Veneto Region (Italy) using mixture modelling”.
  • Conference SIS 2009 – Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-sets, Pescara (Italy), 23-25 September 2009. Title of presentation: “A comparative study on multiple comparisons procedure”.
  • Meeting Innovation and Society 2009, Methods and Policies for evaluation of services, Brescia (Italy), 24-26 June 2009. Title of presentation: “Early customer satisfaction evaluation by conjoint analysis techniques with applications to banking services”.
  • Meeting Multivariate Models and Methods for the Evaluation of Public Services, Rimini (Italy), 25-26 May 2009. Title of presentation: “Advantages of Close Testing Methods for Multiple Comparisons Procedures”.
  • SMUE 2008 - Statistical Modelling for University Evaluations: an International Overview, Mattinata-FG (Italy), 5-6 September 2008. Title of presentation: “Non-parametric combination of dependent rankings: a review and future developments”.
  • SFC CLADAG 2008 – First joint meeting of Sociètè Francophone de Classification and Classification and Data Analysis Group of SIS, Caserta (Italy), 11-13 June 2008. Title of presentation: “On synthesis indicators for multivariate ordinal data”.
  • MODA 8 – Model-Oriented Data Analysis and Optimal Design, Almagro (Spain), 4-8 June 2007. Title of presentation: “Comparisons of heterogeneity: a nonparametric test for the multisample case”.
  • Meeting S.CO. 2007 – Venice (Italy), 6-8 September 2007. Title of presentation: “Valutazione comparativa dell’efficacia esterna di due facoltà universitarie mediante test non parametrico di eterogeneità” (Comparative evaluation of external effectiveness of two University Faculties with nonparametric heterogeneity test).
  • Scientific Workshop Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction for the Quality of Services 2007, Rome (Italy), 12-13 April 2007. Title of presentation: “Qualità dei servizi e disomogeneità di prestazioni: procedure inferenziali per valutazoni comparative” (Quality of services and inhomogeneity of performances: inferential procedures for comparative evaluations).
  • Workshop Statistical models for student evaluation in the university educational processes, Bologna (Italy), 6 February 2007. Title of presentation: “Metodi statistici non parametrici per l’analisi di performance con applicazioni alla valutazione dei dottorati di ricerca” (Nonparametric statistical methods for performance analysis with application to PhD courses evaluation).
  • Applied Statistics 2006 – International Conference, Ribno (Bled), Slovenia, 17-20 September 2006. Title of presentation: “Permutation Tests for Heterogeneity Comparisons in Presence of Categorical Variables with Application to University Evaluation”.
  • SCRA 2006 – XIII International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Tomar (Portugal), 1-4 September 2006. Title of presentation: “Directional Tests for Ordered Categorical Data: a New Permutation Solution”.
  • Conference SIS 2006, Turin (Italy), 14-16 June 2006. Title of presentation: “Some new results on permutation tests for ordinal categorical variables under restricted alternatives”.
  • SMAP ’06 – Statistical Methods for Performance Analysis, International Meeting, Cassino (Italy), 20-21 April 2006. Title of presentation: “A comparison of nonparametric tests for performance analysis in presence of ordinal categorical variables”.
  • Metodi numerici e statistici per le applicazioni: analisi e sviluppo di modelli matematici, algoritmi numerici e simulazioni con applicazioni all’industria all’ambiente e al territorio, Workshop organizzato dal Centro per la Modellistica, il Calcolo e la Statistica (Università di Ferrara) (Numerical and statistical methods for applications. CMCS workshop), Ferrara (Italy), 23 February 2006. Title of presentation: “Permutation tests for univariate and multivariate ordered categorical data”.
  • II Congresso Nazionale di Clinimetria (II National Meeting of Clinimetrics), Bologna (Italy), 23 September 2005. Title of presentation: “Multivariate and multistrata statistical analysis of stochastic ordering: applications to the study of tabagism and the development of hearing impairments from industrial noise”.
  • Meeting S.CO. 2005 – Bressanone-BZ (Italy), 15-17 September 2005. Title of presentation: “Nonparametric statistical techniques and social medicine: a study about the effects of alluminium”.
  • 5th Meeting of the Italian Region of the International Biometric Society, Marina di Massa (Italy), 10-12 September 2003. Title of presentation: “Statistical Analysis in biomedical studies: an application of NPC Test to a clinical trial on a respiratory drug”.

 

AWARDS

  • 2018: “Best Scientific Contribution” in the 14th national conference GICR-IACPR, for the paper entitled “Improved walking speed is associated with lower hospitalization costs in patients following an exercize-based secondary prevention program. A propensity score analysis”.
  • 2011: “Best Contributed Paper Award" in the international meeting Optimal Design of Experiments – ODE, Vienna, for the paper entitled “Advances in CUB models with application to the evaluation of natural parks in the dolomites.” 

 

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020:

-         From 14 February to 27 February, guest lectures and seminars at School of Economics and Business of Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2018:

-         from 1 October to 30 October, visiting experience in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) at the College of Business and Economics of Addis Ababa University

-         from 15 May to 30 May, visiting experience at the Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)

2017:

-         from 4 October to 6 November, visiting experience in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) at the College of Business and Economics of Addis Ababa University

-         from 1 May to 31 May, visiting professor at Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2015:

-         from 17 June to 16 July, visiting professor in the Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences (PGPHS), at School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Paranà, Curitiba (Brasil)

-         from 22 April to 2 May, visiting researcher and “Marie Curie Fellow” at School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou (China) (contact person Prof. Manli Huang).

2014:

-         from 22 July to 23 September, visiting researcher and “Marie Curie Fellow” at School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou (China) (contact person Prof. Manli Huang).

 

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES

2022: member of the Program Committee of the scientific conference "Baltic DB&IS 2022 - 15th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems", Riga (Latvia), 4-6 July 2022

2019: member of the scientific committee of the 1st annual workshop of the CEnter for Research in Circular economy, Innovation and SMEs, CERCIS 2019, Ferrara, 16-18 December 2019

2018: member of the organizing committee of  “ISNPS 2018 – 4th Conference of the International Society of Nonparametric Statistics”, Salerno, 11-15 June 2018

2013: member of the organizing committee of the “Seventh International Workshop on Simulation”, Rimini (Italy), 21-25 May 2013

2012: member of the organizing committee of the “International Conference MMLV 2012 - Methods and Models for Latent Variables, Naples (Italy), 17-19 May 2012

2010: member of the organizing committee of the satellite conference SIS 2010, “Statistics for Complex Problems: The Multivariate Permutation Approach and Related Topics”, Padua (Italy), 14-15 June 2010

 

INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

Current positions:

- From 22 March 2022, member of the Commission responsible for the selection of proposals for the activation of new study degree courses for the University of Ferrara, representing the economic-juridical-humanistic area (three-year assignment)

-         From 20 January 2020, responsible for teaching tutoring, Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara

-         From November 2018, member of the didactic commission of the Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara

-         From 12 September 2018, member of the working group for prevention and tackling of bullying and youth deviance coordinated by the Prefecture Ferrara and including also University of Ferrara, Police, provincial education office, municipalities of the province of Ferrara and other institutions

-         From 1 December 2010, member of the “Department of Economics Institutions and Management”, since October 2011 “Department of Economics and Management”, University of Ferrara as Assistant Professor

-         From 2013, Board member of PhD in Economics and of PhD in Economics and Management of Innovation and Sustainability (Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara and Department of Economics, University of Parma)

-         From 2005, member of the Center for Modelling Computing and Simulation (CMCS), University of Ferrara. From 8 September 2011, member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Modelling Computing and Simulation

2018-2021: from 1 November 2018 to 31 October 2021, Coordinator of the Bachelor Program in “Economics”, University of Ferrara

2018-2021: from 21 May 2018 to 31 October 2021, Deputy Rector for Statistical Studies at the University of Ferrara with particular regard to activities concerning design, sampling, collection and analysis of data of statistical surveys, of interest for the University and other local and national institutions and the coordination of these activities, aimed at the production, development and dissemination of statistical data

2014-2016:

-         since 28 November 2014, member of the Research Council of University of Ferrara, for area 9 (Economics, Statistics and Management) (for two years).

2013-2021:

-         Member of the Committee for the Quality of Teaching for the Department of Economics and Management (University of Ferrara).

2015-2016:

-         member of the Review Group for the Bachelor's Degree in Economics and the Master Degree in Economics, Markets and Management, Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara

2014:

-         Member of the task force of the Department of Economics and Management (University of Ferrara) to plan joint research and teaching activities with the “Business School Pontifical Catholic University of Parana” (Curitiba, Brasil).

-         Member of the “Committee for the identification of strategic research areas for the Department of Economics and Management (University of Ferrara)”.

-         Member of the “Committee for the revision of undergraduate courses and the design of a new 2nd level degree program in English”, Department of Economics and Management (University of Ferrara).

2013-2018:

-         Member of the Joint Committee for Teaching (Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara) composed by professors and students, to make proposals for improving the degree courses.

2012: Member of the Committee for the Evaluation of Teaching Quality for the Faculty of Economics, University of Ferrara.

2010-2012: since 1 December 2010, member of the Faculty of Economics as Assistant Professor, University of Ferrara.

2011: Member of the Committee for the Evaluation of Teaching Quality for the Faculty of Economics, University of Ferrara.

2005-2010:

- Member of CoMStat (Statistical Monitoring Committee), University of Ferrara, founded for computing official statistics of the University of Ferrara, processing data from the database of students, from the database of employees, from official national sources (like Ministry of Education), from specific surveys.

 

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP, FELLOWSHIP, GRANTS

2007-2010: from January 2007 to November 2010, research fellow at the Department of Mathematics of University of Ferrara for the project “Statistics applied to University evaluation” (supervisor: Prof. Valeria Ruggiero).

2007:   PhD in “Statistics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences”, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua (3 years fellowship).

2003:   from 1 June to 31 December 2003: research scholarship for the project “Nonparametric statistical methods for the analysis of experimental and observational data with applications in biomedicine”. Supervisor: Prof. Fortunato Pesarin (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua)

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Þ  Good English: spoken and written

Þ  Basic Spanish: spoken and written

SOFTWARE

  • Operating Systems: DOS, WINDOWS, AS400 and UNIX.
  • Internet: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and other software for web navigation and emails, HTML Wizard and FrontPage for creating web pages.
  • Application Software: R, SAS, Matlab, Word, Excel , Access, Power Point, software for statistical applications like Statistica, Statgraphics, MicroTsp, Tsp, MicroFit, Gauss, Lindo, Chaid, Minitab, NPC Test, StatXact, CR Test, Map Viewer, Quantum GIS, IBM software for business applications in AS400.
  • Software development: collaborator in the design and implementation of of the software NPC Test 2.0 and NPC Test R10, for the application of the Nonparametric Combination of dependent permutation tests.
  • Programming languages: Turbo Pascal and Basic.