Fabrizio Durante is Full Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Salento, Department of Mathematics and Physics "Ennio De Giorgi", in Lecce, Italy.
He studied at the University of Lecce, Italy, where he obtained his doctoral degree in Mathematics. After completing his doctoral studies, he worked at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (2006–2010), where he obtained the habilitation in Mathematics in 2010. He served as Assistant Professor of Statistics (2010-2014) and Associate Professor of Statistics (2015-2016) at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano in Italy. From December 2016 toOctober 2024, he was Full Professor of Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the Department of Economic Sciences and, later, at the Department of Mathematics and Physics "Ennio De Giorgi" of the University of Salento.
His research activities focus on stochastic methods and models for complex systems with particular emphasis on applications in quantitative risk management, reliability theory and environmental science. He is also interested in machine learning and data science. Together with Carlo Sempi he authored the monograph “Principles of Copula Theory”, published by CRC/Chapman & Hall (2016).
He serves as Associate Editor for Dependence Modeling, Area Editor for Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and Area Editor for the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. He is also Co-Chair of the specialized team on Dependence Models and Copulas at ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics.
He is the national coordinator of the project ``Stochastic Modeling of Compound Events'' (2023-26) by Italian Ministry of University and Research under PRIN 2022 PNRR, in the framework of European Union - Next Generation EU. He was also National Coordinator of the project "Stochastic Models for Complex Systems" (SMOCS) supported by Italian MIUR (PRIN 2017, no. 2017JFFHSH). He is affiliated with the ICSC – Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by European Union Next Generation EU (CUP F83C22000740001).
He received the STAHY Best Paper Award 2015 from the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH-IAHS) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. for the paper: "G. Salvadori, C. De Michele, and F. Durante, On the return period and design in a multivariate framework, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15:3293-3305, 2011". [pdf]