Research

Research interests

• decision theory

• imprecise probabilistic models for finance

• games under ambiguity

• probability theory

• non-additive uncertainty measures

• reasoning under uncertainty and partial knowledge

• de Finetti's coherent conditional probabilities

• coherent lower and upper conditional probabilities

• probabilistic and non-probabilistic graphical models

• generalized Bayesian inference

• mathematical statistics

• multi-criteria decision analysis

Scientific Qualifications

• May 2021: Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor in Mathematical Analysis, Probability and Mathematical Statistics (S.C. 01/A3 (S.S.D. MAT/06) – Analisi matematica, probabilità e statistica matematica)

• April 2020: Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences (S.C. 13/D4 – Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie)

Academic positions

• September 2025 – Present: Professore Ordinario (Full Professor) S.S.D. STAT-04/A (ex S.S.D. SECS-S/06) Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie, Dipartimento MEMOTEF, Sapienza Università di Roma

• August 2023 – August 2025: Chercheur Associé (Associate Researcher), Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 ( LIP6), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

• November 2019 – August 2025: Professore Associato (Associate Professor) S.S.D. STAT-04/A (ex S.S.D. SECS-S/06) Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie, Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia

• November 2016 – November 2019: Ricercatore TD-b (Assistant Professor) S.S.D. SECS-S/06 Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie, Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia

• June 2015 — November 2016: Ricercatore TD-a (Assistant Professor) S.S.D. MAT/06 Probabilità e Statistica Matematica, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Perugia

• June 2014 — June 2015: Assegnista di Ricerca (PostDoc) S.S.D. MAT/06 Probabilità e Statistica Matematica, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Perugia

• June 2013 — May 2014: Assegnista di Ricerca (PostDoc) S.S.D. MAT/06 Probabilità e Statistica Matematica, Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria, “La Sapienza” Università di Roma

Research project grants as Principal Investigaror

• Since September 2023 (24 months): Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 Project “Models for dynamic reasoning under partial knowledge to make interpretable decisions”, funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, Website: link

• From December 2019 (24 months): Principal Investigator of the Basic Research Project 2017-2019 “Modelli per le decisioni economiche e finanziarie in condizioni di ambiguità ed imprecisione”, funded by the University of Perugia

• From March 2015 (12 months): Principal Investigator of the INdAM–GNAMPA Research Project 2015 “Envelopes of coherent conditional probabilities and their applications to statistics and artificial intelligence”, funded by the National Group of Mathematical Analysis, Probability and its Applications (GNAMPA) of the Italian National Institute for Higher Mathematics “Francesco Severi” (INdAM)

Research project grants as Member

• Since October 2023 (24 months): Member of the Basic Research Project 2022 WP 4.1: “RATIONALISTS”, funded by the University of Perugia

• Since October 2022 (24 months): Member of the Basic Research Projects 2021 WP 1.2: “MMMAINSTREAM”, WP 4.1: “AIDMIX” and WP 4.4: “Uninuvola”, funded by the University of Perugia

• From April 2020 (12 months): Member of the INdAM–GNAMPA Research Project 2020 “Reasoning under uncertainty and coherence principle”, funded by the National Group of Mathematical Analysis, Probability and its Applications (GNAMPA) of the Italian National Institute for Higher Mathematics “Francesco Severi” (INdAM)

• From March 2016 (12 months): Member of the INdAM–GNAMPA Research Project 2016 “Uncertainty treatment based on coherent probability and its generalizations: theoretical aspects and applications”, funded by the National Group of Mathematical Analysis, Probability and its Applications (GNAMPA) of the Italian National Institute for Higher Mathematics “Francesco Severi” (INdAM)

• From November 2015 (36 months): Member of the Trilateral German-French-Italian Research Workshops Villa Vigoni 2015–2017 “Human Rationality: Probabilistic Points of View”, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and Villa Vigoni

• From March 2015 (24 months): Member of the research unit at the University of Perugia of the project “Intelligent systems for decision aiding in the early idendtification and dissuasion from using doping”, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, scientific coordinator Prof. Giulianella Coletti, unit supervisor Prof. Andrea Capotorti.

• From January 2014 (18 months): Member of the project “Bayesian inference, probability envelopes and their applications”, funded by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, scientific coordinator Prof. Barbara Vantaggi.

• From February 2012 (36 months): Member of the research unit at the University of Perugia of the PRIN project “Logical methods of information treatment”, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, scientific coordinator Prof. Antonio Di Nola, unit supervisor Prof. Giulianella Coletti.

• From March 2010 (24 months): Member of the research unit at the University of Perugia of the PRIN project “Models and methods for managing information and uncertainty in knowledge acquisition processes and in decisional processes”, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, scientific coordinator Prof. Giulianella Coletti, unit supervisor Prof. Giulianella Coletti.

Scientific education

• Ph.D. (Dottorato di Ricerca XXV Ciclo con borsa MIUR) in “Mathematics and Computer Science for Information and Knowledge treatment”, Università degli Studi di Perugia, judgement excellent (maximum judgement), obtained on January 15th, 2013 with the thesis “Coherent Conditional Possibility Theory and Possibilistic Graphical Modeling in a Coherent Setting”, advisor professor Giulianella Coletti

• M.S. (Laurea Specialistica) in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Perugia, summa cum laude (maximum judgement), obtained on September 8th, 2009 with the thesis “Algorithms for checking coherence and for enlarging conditional possibility assessments”, advisors professor Marco Baioletti and professor Giulianella Coletti

• B.S. (Laurea Triennale) in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Perugia, summa cum laude (maximum judgement), obtained on September 20th, 2007 with the thesis “An environment for probabilistic management of uncertainty in the medical diagnosis process”, advisors professor Marco Baioletti, professor Andrea Capotorti and professor Giulianella Coletti

Schools

• May 26th, 2014 – May 31st, 2014: European Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) Spring School “Multiple criteria decision making: a key for sustainability”, Perugia, Italy

• September 17th, 2009 – September 19th, 2009: 7th International School on “Reasoning under Partial Knowledge”, Foligno, Italy

• February 16th, 2009 – February 17th, 2009: Giornate di Algebra Lineare Numerica e Applicazioni, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy

Visiting periods abroad

• Academic Year 2025-26 (1 month): Laboratoire d'économie mathématique et de microéconomie appliquée (LEMMA) of the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France (Invited Visiting Professor)

• February 3rd – 16th, May 26th – June 8th   (1 month): Laboratoire d'économie mathématique et de microéconomie appliquée (LEMMA) of the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France (Invited Visiting Professor)

• February 12th – 25th, April 8th – 21st (1 month): Laboratoire d'économie mathématique et de microéconomie appliquée (LEMMA) of the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France (Invited Visiting Professor)

• February 12th – 25th, 2023: Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) of the Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (Invited Visiting Professor)

• May 1st – 10th, 2015: Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS 6), Paris, France

• February, 2012 – June, 2012 (5 months): Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS 6), Paris, France 

• March, 2011 – June, 2011 (4 months): Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR), Prague, Czech Republic

Organizing activities

• Program Chair for the 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2026), 15-19 June 2026, Rome, Italy

• Publication Co-Chair for the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2025), 6-9 July 2025, Reims, France

• Co-organizer of the special session “Models for Dynamic Reasoning Under Partial Knowledge to Make Interpretable Decisions” in the 24th Annual SAET Conference (SAET 2025), 29 June - 5 July 2025, Ischia, Italy

• Member of the organizing committee for the 16th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2024), 27-29 November 2024, Palermo, Italy

• Co-organizer of the special session “Models for dynamic reasoning under partial knowledge to make interpretable decisions” in the 48th AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2024), 5-7 September 2024, Ischia, Italy  

• Co-organizer of the special session “Dynamic decision models under uncertainty and imprecision” in the 20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2024), 22-26 July 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

• Co-organizer of the special session “Dynamic decisions under uncertainty and imprecision” in the 47th AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2023), 20-22 September 2023, Milan, Italy

• Co-organizer of the special session “Beliefs, risk and uncertainty in economics” in the 46th AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2022), 22-24 September 2022, Palermo, Italy

• Publication Chair for the 19th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2022), 11-15 July 2022, Milan, Italy

• Co-organizer of the invited session “Beliefs, risk and uncertainty in artificial intelligence” in the 14th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2021), 18-20 December 2021, Virtual Conference

• Co-organizer of the invited session “Modeling uncertainty and vagueness in decision making and economics” in the 13th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2020), 19-21 December 2020, Virtual Conference

• Member of the organizing committee for the 43rd AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2019), 9-11 September 2019, Perugia, Italy

• Co-organizer of the special session “Decision making, uncertainty and imprecision” in the 43rd AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2019), 9-11 September 2019, Perugia, Italy

• Co-organizer of the stream “Decision Making under Imprecise and Vague Information” in the 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), 23-26 June 2019, Dublin, Ireland

• Co-organizer of  Reasoning Under Partial Knowledge – Conference in honor of Giulianella Coletti’s 70th birthday, 14-15 December 2018, Perugia-Foligno, Italy

• Co-organizer of the special session “Uncertainty and vagueness for decision modelling” in the 42nd AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2018), 13-15 September 2018, Naples, Italy

• Co-organizer of the special session “Decision models under vague and imprecise information” in the 41st AMASES MEETING (AMASES 2017), 14-16 September 2017, Cagliari, Italy

• Co-organizer of the special track “de Finetti's heritage in uncertainty and decision making” in the 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2017), 27-30 June 2017, Arras, France

• Member of the organizing committee for the conference INdAM Day 2016, 8 June 2016, Perugia, Italy

Program Committee of International Conferences

• 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy

• 18th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2025), 23-26 September 2025, Hagen, Germany

• 4th International Conference on Human and Artificial Rationalities (HAR 2025), 16-19 September 2025, Paris, France

• 2025 IFSA World Congress NAFIPS Annual Meeting (IFSA-NAFIPS 2025), 16-19 August 2025, Banff, Alberta, Canada 

• 14th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2025), 15-18 July 2025, Bielefeld, Germany

• 2025 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2025), 6-9 July 2025, Reims, France

• 16th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2024), 27-29 November 2024, Palermo, Italy

• 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), 19-24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• 3rd International Conference on Human and Artificial Rationalities (HAR 2024), 17-20 September 2024, Paris, France

• 20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2024), 22-26 July 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

• 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023), 30 September-5 October 2023, Kraków, Poland

• 17th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2023), 19-22 September 2023, Arras, France

• 13th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2023), 11-14 July 2023, Oviedo, Spain

• 16th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021), 21-24 September 2021, Prague, Czech Republic

• 12th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2021), 6-9 July 2021, Granada, Spain

• 8th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2020), 15-19 June 2020, Lisbon, Portugal

• 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), 8-12 June 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• 15th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2019), 18-20 September 2019, Belgrad, Serbia

• 11th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2019), 3-6 July 2019, Ghent, Belgium

• 14th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2017), 10-14 July 2017, Lugano, Switzerland

Affiliations

• ISAI – International Society of Applied Intelligence

• EMS – European Mathematical Society

• EURO WG MCDA – EURO Working Group on Multicriteria Decision Aiding

• EUSFLAT – European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

• AMASES – Italian Association for Mathematics Applied to Economics and Social Sciences

• GNAMPA INdAM – National Group for Mathematical Analysis, Probability and Applications of the Italian National Institute of Higher Mathematics “Francesco Severi”

Reviewer activity

• Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer International Journal)

• Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (Springer International Journal)

• Annals of Operations Research (Springer International Journal)

• Decisions in Economics and Finance (Springer International Journal)

• Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier International Journal)

• European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier International Journal)

• Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Elsevier International Journal)

• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE International Journal)

• International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Elsevier International Journal)

• International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (World Scientific International Journal)

• International Journal of General Systems (Taylor & Fancis International Journal)

• Künstliche Intelligenz – German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Springer International Journal)

• Soft Computing (Springer International Journal)

• Statistical Methods and Applications (Springer International Journal)

• Mathematical Reviews Database - AMS (International Scientific Society)