Curriculum Vitae

Higher Education

• Ph.D in Statistics, University College London, London (UK), 2019. Thesis on "Full Bayesian Methods to Handle Missingness in Health Economic Evaluation"

• MSc in Statistics and Econometrics, University of Essex, Colchester (UK), 2015. Thesis on "Forecasting the Equity Premium"

• MSc (Laurea Magistralis) in Applied Economics with English Language, Universita degli studi di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 2014. Thesis on "Dirichlet Process Mixture for statistical inference with binary data"

• BSc (Laurea Triennale) in Economics, Universita degli studi di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 2012. Thesis on "The European Union European Trading System (EU ETS) after the Kyoto Protocol"

Postgraduate Education and Conferences 

• Conference: lolaHESG 2023, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. (paper presented).

• Conference: EuHEA Conference 2022, Oslo, Norway. (paper presented).

• Conference: lolaHESG 2022, Maastricht, The Netherlands. (paper presented).

• Conference: R-HTA summer workshop 2021 (online), Dublin , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. (R package presented).

• Conference: Health Economists Study Group Winter Meeting 2021 (online), London, LSHTM, UK. (paper presented). 

• Conference: ISPOR Europe 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Poster presented).

• Conference: ICTMC 2019, Brighton, 2019. (Paper presented).

• Conference: HESG 2019 Summer meeting, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2019. (Paper presented).

• Two-months visiting period at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) on a joint project with Professor MJ. Daniels, 2018.

• Conference: Bayes-Pharma 2016, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2016.

• Conference: The Third EuHEA PhD student-supervisor conference, Universitat In­ternacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2016. (Poster presented).

• Pathway to teacher development: Basic introduction on the principles of PBL & Small group Teaching Training SGTT/Tutoring skills  courses - Maastricht University, 2021

• Short Course: Statistical Modelling and Computing, APTS - University of Nottingham, 2016

• Taught Course: Applied Bayesian and Advanced Computational Methods in Statistics, London Taught Course Centre, 2016

• Short Course: Practical Use of Multiple Imputation to Handle Missing Data in Stata, University of Cambridge, 2016

• Short Course: Bayesian Methods in Health Economics, University College University of Cambridge, 2015

Teaching

• Co-supervisor for PhD students, UM, Maastricht, 2021-on going. Projects:  

  1. "Increasing Efficiency in the usage of longitudinal data in effectiveness studies (or clinical trials) within general practice (Family Medicine - CAPHRI).

  2. "To be communicated" (Health Promotion - NUTRIM).

• Coordinator for the undergraduate course "Coding and Data Crunching" in the Regenerative Medicine and Technology programme in the topics of descriptive statistics and basic inferential methods such as hypothesis testing and linear regression (CODAC 1.5) at UM, 2023-2024

• Coordinator for the undergraduate courses "SCL Statistics" in the European Public Health programme in the topics of reliability and validity, linear and logistic regression (EPH2021, EPH2022, EPH1025, EPH3022) at UM, 2020-2023

• Co-coordinator and Teacher for the undergraduate course "Linear and Logistic Regression and Repeated Measures Analysis" (BBS2007) at UM, 2020-2023

• Thesis supervisor for MSc students in the Governance and Leadership EPH programme at UM, 2021-2023

• Teacher for the undergraduate courses "Introduction to Statistical Methods for Data Analysis" (BBS2003 & EPH1026) and "Advanced Statistics and Research Methods" (GZW3024) at UM, 2020-2023

• Teacher for the postgraduate course "Advanced statistical analysis techniques" (EPI4923) at UM, 2020-2021

• Co-supervisor for PhD students, UCL, London, 2019-on going. Project title:  "Bayesian methods to handle item-level missingness in the analysis of patient questionnaires from clinical trials" -- Statistics (Stats) 

• Tutor/demonstrator and marker for the course "Introductory Statistical Methods and Computing "(Stats), "Economic Evaluation in Health Care" and "Key Principles of Health Economics" (ICTM) at UCL, 2018-2020

• Co-supervisor and marker for MSc students, UCL, London, 2018-2019

Dissertation title:  "Comparative analysis between multiple imputation and a Bayesian approach in cost-effectiveness analysis" -- MSc Statistics (Stats) 

Dissertation title: "Dealing with Missing Data in Health Economic Evaluation" -- MSc Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS)

• Support Worker for disabled students in higher education, University College London, UCL Student Disability Services, London, 2015

• Tutor for the courses "Microeconomics" and "Macroeconomics" at Universita degli studi di Pavia, Facolta di Economia, Pavia (IT), 2012-2014

Prizes

• Awarded the Costas Goutis Prize for high quality research work leading to the transfer of registration from MPhil to PhD, 2017

• Awarded a research grant from The Foundation BLANCEFLOR Boncompagni Ludovisi, nee Bildt, 2016

Professional Activities

• Assistant Professor in Statistics, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Methodology and Statistics (UM), 2020-on going

• External collaborator  for private companies involved in health economic and statistics projects (MSD), 2021-2022

• Research Fellow in Statistics and Health Economics, department of statistical science and department of primary care and population health (UCL), 2018-2019

• External collaborator  for private companies involved in health economic projects, such as Network Meta-Analyses and Economic Evaluations (IQVIA and GSK), 2018-2020

• Junior Research Analyst for MAPIgroup, 2016-2017