2018 Short Visiting at Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, University of Lille 1, Lille (France), invited by Christophe Biernacki, Scientific Deputy at INRIA Lille, and Scientific Head of the MODAL team, granted by an Erasmus 2018 Grant of the University of Milano Bicocca.
2016 Short Visiting at the University of Lodz, Lodz (Poland), invited by Alina Jedrzejczak, head of Department of Statistical Methods, granted by an Erasmus 2016 Grant of the University of Milano Bicocca.
2016 Visiting Scholar at the University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), awarded by the Ethel Raybould Grant from the University of Queensland.
2015 Short Visiting at Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, University of Lille 1, Lille (France), invited by Youri Davydov, granted by an Erasmus 2015 Grant of the University of Milano Bicocca.
2014 Short Visiting at GIR de Probabilidad y Estadìstica Matemàtica, University of Valladolid, Valladolid (Spain) granted by an Erasmus 2014 Grant of the University of Milano Bicocca.
2011 Faculty Research Program (FRP), awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS), for the research project entitled: “Cross-Regional Income Inequality in Canada and Italy: Issues and Evidence”.
2011 Visiting University Scholar Program (VUSP) award (Completion: 2012) awarded by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International Relations), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (Canada) (R. Zitikis, Principal Investigator).
2011 Recipient of the designation as “Western Fellow” at the University of Western Ontario, London (Canada).
Affiliation to Scientific Societies
Italian Statistical Society (SIS);
Classification and Data Analysis Group of the SIS;
International Statistical Institute (ISI);
International Federation of Classification Society (IFCS);
Classification Society (CSNA);
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Working Group - Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics) Working Teams: GCS: General Computational Statistics: GMS: General Methodological Statistics; MM: Mixture Models; RACDS: Robust Analysis of Complex Data Sets;
BiostatEpi Association for Information and Training in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.