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Academic Experience

2024 - present
Harvard University, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher

2019 - 2024
LMU Munich, Germany
Researcher & Lecturer

Education

2019 - 2024
LMU Munich, Germany
PhD in Statistics

2015 - 2019
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
MSc in Economic and Social Sciences

2012 - 2015
University of Florence, Italy
BSc in Statistics

Honors and Awards

“Corona Special Award: Impact of the pandemic on the economy and society - 2022
Awarded by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (DESTATIS) for outstanding work examining empirical issues with intensive use of data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded for the papers “On assessing excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic” and “An update on excess mortality in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany”.

DAGSTAT Best Poster Award - 2022
Awarded for the poster “Modelling large and dynamically growing bipartite networks - A case study in patent data” presented at the DAGSTAT conference, March 28-Apr 1, 2022, Hamburg, Germany

“Giuseppe Parenti” Prize, Best Graduate - 2016
Awarded by the alumni association of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Florence (“Associazione Villa Favard”) on the basis of overall GPA among all graduates of the faculty of Economics, Management and Statistics of the class of 2015 (1000+ students).

Productivity and merit scholarship - 2013, 2014, 2015
Scholarship awarded on the basis of academic merit and productivity by the University of Florence.

Fellow - LMU Mentoring Program 2023, 2024
The mentoring program supports excellent young scientists (doctoral students and postdocs) on their way to an academic career. The program’s funding allows me to present at international conferences and visit collaborators overseas.

Teaching

2023/2024

  • Inferenzstatistik 1 (Statistical Inference 1, exercise sessions)
  • Inferenzstatistik 2 (Statistical Inference 2, exercise sessions)
  • Structured Seminar: Statistical Analysis of Social Networks

2022/2023

  • Inferenzstatistik 1 (Statistical Inference 1, exercise sessions)
  • Inferenzstatistik 2 (Statistical Inference 2, exercise sessions)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 1 (exercise sessions)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 2 (exercise sessions)
  • Structured Seminar: Open Science in Statistics & Machine Learning
  • Structured Seminar: Statistical Analysis of Social Networks

2021/2022

  • Advanced Statistical Modeling (entire course)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 1 (exercise sessions)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 2 (exercise sessions)
  • Regression for Correlated Data (exercise sessions)
  • Structured Seminar: Statistical Modeling of Political Networks

2020/2021

  • Advanced Statistical Modeling (entire course)
  • Analysis of Longitudinal Data (exercise sessions)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 1 (exercise sessions)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 2 (exercise sessions)
  • Structured Seminar: Statistical Analysis of Social Networks

2019/2020

  • Advanced Statistical Modeling (entire course)
  • Analysis of Longitudinal Data (exercise sessions)
  • Statistical Reasoning and Inference 2 (exercise sessions)
  • Structured Seminar: Complex Networks