Davide La Vecchia

Summary

Davide is Full Professor at the Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is member of Research Center for Statistics (RCS) and he is currently on sabbatical leave, visiting the CREST (ENSAE, Paris). He served as Director of the Master in Statistics and as Director of the Certificat Complementaire en Statistique Appliquée. Before joining the RCS, Davide was Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Statistics, Monash University (Australia). He did his undergraduate and master studies in Economics, at Bocconi University (Italy). After two years of experience in the industry as portfolio manager, Davide started in 2004 a PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University.  In 2007, he finished his PhD in Statistics and in 2008 he started a PhD in Economics at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland). In 2011, Davide finished his PhD in Economics. During his PhD studies, he was visiting scholar at the Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen (in 2006), and at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department, Princeton University (in 2010).

Education

• Degree in Economics (2002), Bocconi University (Milano, Italy); 

• PhD in Methodological Statistics (2007), Bocconi University (Milano, Italy); 

• PhD in Economics, Università della Svizzera Italiana (2011) (Lugano, Switzerland)

Academic positions

• Lecturer in Probability & Statistics for the master in engineering (ALaRI), Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland (Feb-Jun 2010)

• Lecturer in Statistics (100%), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Jan 2012 - Jul 2013)

• Lecturer in Statistics (20%), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Aug 2013 - Aug 2015)

• Assistant Professor in Econometrics (75%), University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science (July 2013-Aug 2015)

• Assistant Professor in Statistics at the Research Center for Statistics, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva (Sept 2015-Jul 2018)

• Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University (Aug 2015-Aug 2018), unpaid

• Associate Professor in Statistics at the Research Center for Statistics, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva (Aug 2018-2022)

• Full Professor in Statistics at the Research Center for Statistics, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva (Jan 2023-present)

Visiting positions

• University of Copenhagen (2006)

• University of St. Gallen (2007)

• Princeton University (2010)

• Monash University (Jul 2015 and Jul 2017)

• CREST (from Feb 2024 to May 2024)

Grants

• Scholarship of the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione for a 3 yrs PhD at Bocconi University and for 1 yr visiting at the University of St. Gallen (Principal investiator, single applicant, 2006)

• Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a visiting research period of 1 yr at Princeton University (Principal Investigator, 2010)

• Monash University new staff grant (2012, Principal Investigator, single applicant)

• Australian Research Council grant (with M. Silvapulle, and M. Hallin, 2015)

• Swiss National Science Foundation (2016, Principal Investigator, single applicant)

• Swiss National Science Foundation (2023, Principal Investigator, single applicant): scholar exchange grant