SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name: Pennoni
First name: Fulvia
Date of birth: June 22, 1976
Nationality: Italian
Family: Pietro (born 19th March 2007), Teresa (born 4th March 2011)
Research Identifiers: Orcid 0000-0002-6331-7211, Research ID: AAB-5995-2021, Scopus 18434857400
EDUCATION
2000 - Degree in Economics and Business Administration, University of Perugia, Italy, Final grade: Summa cum Laude. Thesis: “Multivariate statistical methods applied to behaviour with revolving credit cards”, supervisor Prof. Elena Stanghellini
2004 - PhD./Doctorate in “Statistics”, University of Florence (IT). Dissertation: “Issues on the estimation of latent variable and latent class models with social science applications”, supervisor Prof. Giovanni Marchetti
CURRENT POSITION
2021 - Full Professor of Statistics at Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca (UMB, IT)
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2014 - 2021 Associate Professor of Statistics at Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, UMB
2006 - 2014 Research fellow of Statistics (postdoctoral position) at Department of Statistics, UMB
2005 - 2006 Research Assistant of Statistics (postdoctoral position) at the Unit of Econometrics and Applied Statistics of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra (IT) on “Development and application of advanced mathematical and statistical tools for data analysis”, supervisor Stefano Tarantola
2004 - 2005 Research fellow of Statistics (postdoctoral position) at the Department of Statistics, University of Florence, on “Integrated information systems for small area estimation”, supervisor Prof. Andrea Giommi
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS INSTITUTIONAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2025 – Member of the Quality Assurance Board of UMB
2024/25 – Member of the admission evaluation committee for international students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science
2024/25, 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22 – Member of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Bachelor’s Degree in Biostatistics
2022 – Expert evaluator for U. of Parma (IT), “University Call 2022, Action B: Research Projects for Young Researchers”
2022/23 – Member of the inclusion committee of the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods
2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 – Faculty member of the PhD program in “Resources for the New Public Administration: People and Data,” UMB
2023/24, 2024/25 – Faculty member of the PhD program in “Economics, Statistics and Data Science,” UMB
2022/23, 2021/22 – Member of the selection committee for tutoring assignments for the Bachelor’s programs in Economics and Commerce, and in Statistics and Information Management
2021/22 – Chair of the Joint Student-Teacher Committee of the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods
2021 – Expert evaluator for competitive calls: NWO Talent Programme Veni ENW (Science domain, Netherlands), allocation of funds (€300,000)
2018 – Expert evaluator for competitive calls: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom, allocation of funds (€250,000)
2017 – Expert evaluator for internal research projects of Italian universities (Università di Roma La Sapienza and Università di Padova), allocation of funds (€50,000)
2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 – Faculty member of the PhD program in Economics and Statistics, UMB
2017/18, 2016/17, 2015/16, 2014/15 – Faculty member of the PhD program in Statistics and Mathematics for Finance, UMB
2019-2021 – Member of the Joint Committee of the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods
2019-2020 – Member of the examination committee for the Statistics curriculum for the 35th cycle of the PhD program in Economics and Statistics
2021/22, 2020/21, 2017/18, 2016/17 – Member of the annual monitoring committee for the Biostatistics study program
2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14 – Member of the working group for research enhancement, evaluating local research projects for those not funded by national and international competitive calls
2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14 – Member of the Erasmus and internationalization committee of the Bachelor’s programs in Statistical Sciences and Information Management, and Biostatistics
2007/08 – Member of the Faculty Coordination Committee of the Faculty of Statistical Sciences
2008/09, 2007/08 – Member of the freshman survey coordination committee of the Faculty of Statistical Sciences
2008/09 – Member of the coordination committee for the promotion of statistics in secondary schools
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Academic years 2024/25-2023/24:
Position at the School of Economics and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca:
- Instructor of Statistical Models II (6 ECTS), Master’s Degree in Biostatistics
- Instructor of Bayesian Inference (6 ECTS), Master’s Degree in Biostatistics
- Instructor of Statistical Modelling (6 ECTS, taught in English), Master’s Degree in Data Science
Academic year 2022-2023:
Held at the Master in Finance, Università della Svizzera Italiana:
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistics
Held at degrees Biostatistics
- in charge of the course on Bayesian Inference
- in charge of the course on Statistical Models II
Held at degrees Biostatistics, Business Economics, Statistical and Economic Sciences (previously Faculty of Statistics) at UMB:
Academic years 2016-2022:
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Models II
- in charge of the course on Bayesian Inference
- in charge of the course on Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Academic year 2015-2016:
- Teaching mobility (Call 2015 KA1, Erasmus+ programme) at University of Economics in Katowice, Poland, Department of Management/Economics and Financial Analysis from 09/03/2016 to 11/03/2016: Multivariate Data Analysis with R
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Models II
- in charge of the course on Probability and Statistical Inference
- in charge of the course of Statistics I
Academic year 2014-2015:
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Models with R
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Quality Control
- in charge of the course on Probability and Statistical Inference
Academic year 2013-2014:
- in charge of the course on Simulation Methods with R
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Quality Control
Academic year 2012-2013:
- in charge of the course on Simulation Methods with R
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Quality Control
Academic years 2010-2012:
- in charge of the course on Simulation Methods with R
- in charge of the advanced course on Statistical Quality Control
- Teaching Assistant for the course in Statistics
Academic years 2008-2010:
- in charge of the course on Simulation Methods with R
- Teaching Assistant for the advanced course in Statistics
- Teaching Assistant for the advanced course on Stochastic Processes
- Teaching Assistant for the course on Sample Theory
- Teaching Assistant for the advanced course on Statistical Quality Control
Academic year 2006-2007:
- Teaching Assistant for the course Quantitative Methods for Economics, Finance and Management, Faculty of Economy, University Carlo Cattaneo, LIUC (Varese), Italy
- Teaching Assistant for the advanced course on Stochastic Processes
- Teaching Assistant for the course on Sample Theory
Held at the Faculties of Economy, Agriculture and Psychology of the University of Florence, (IT)
Academic years 2002-2004:
- Teaching Assistant for the advanced level course in Statistics
- Teaching Assistant for the basic course in Statistics with R, at the Master “Conservation and management of the terrestrial flora and fauna”
- Teaching Assistant for the course in Statistics
Postgraduate level courses:
2022- “Fundamentals of Business Statistics”, held for LUISS Business School al Executive MBA, Milan
2019/20-2020/21-2021/22 “Latent Markov Models for the analysis of longitudinal data”, held for the PhD in Economics, Statistics and Data Science, UMB
2014 - 2018 “Introduction to the Expectation-Maximization algorithm” and Introduction to the Bootstrap, held for the PhD in Statistics and Mathematics for Finance, UMB
2018 - 2019 “Statistical analysis of real estate data”, held for the Master in Valuation & Advisory, Polytechnic of Milano Graduate School of Business
SUPERVISOR OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2004 - Supervision and co-supervision of 8 PhD. students and about 80 bachelor and master theses at UMB
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Latent variable models
Composite indicators
Graphical models
QUALITY AND IMPACT OF PUBLICATIONS (2022)
She (co)authored 2 scientific books with international publishers and at least 64 scientific paper listed in Scopus, among which at least 21 are of type A (“fascia A”). She (co)authored 63 book chapters and 94 conference proceedings in addition to lecture notes and various works of technical reports and science dissemination.
H-index: 13 (WoS), 14 (Scopus), 18 (Google Scholar)
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2022 - Associate Editor of Statistical Modelling: An International Journal
2022 - Associate Editor of Statistical Methods and Applications
2020 - Associate Editor of Metron
2005 - Referee for many high quality scientific international statistical journals (Communication in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference and more…)
PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH GRANTS
Research specialist on the following grants funded by the Italian Government and Institutes:
ATE 2024–2025: “Statistical models and machine learning methods for the analysis of complex data”
Fondazione-Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia 2022–2024: “Causal analysis of the determinants of health status of long-Covid patients based on clinical, functional and instrumental data: A multi-centre longitudinal study”
ATE 2023–2024: “Model-based clustering with discrete latent variable models: Maximum-likelihood estimation and variable selection”
PRIN 2022: “Hidden Markov models for Early Warning Systems”, Local Unit Coordinator
ATEQC-0031-2022: “Hidden Markov models for Early Warning Systems”, Principal Investigator of the local research group
InPreSa 2020 “Early detection and containment SARS-siCoV-2. Tools and services to address the COVID-19”, Lombardy Region
AlmaLaurea 2021–2022: “Statistical analysis of longitudinal data collected through the graduate employment survey, with particular attention to the issue of non-response”
STAR 2013 “Statistical models for the evaluation and perceptions”, University of Naples-Federico II
FIRB 2012 “Mixture and latent variable models for causal inference and analysis of socio-economic data”, “Futuro in Ricerca”. Principal Investigator of the local research group
EIEF 2008 - 2011 “Advances in non-linear panel models with socio-economic applications”, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
2009 - 2010 “Performance evaluation of the structures operating on the regional legislation to help people with instructions, formation and job training”, Lombardy Region
PRIN 2007 “Graphical models, latent class and panel data models: methodological development and applications on education and health”
PRIN 2005 “Marginal models for categorical variables with applications to causal analysis”
PRIN 2003 “Bayesian network and causal inference: methodology and applications”
PRIN 2002 “Stochastic ordering in the analysis of dependence in multiple tables with application in sociology and health”
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2023 “International Workshop on Statistical Modelling”, Member of the scientific program committee, Dortmund, Germany
2023 “Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group”, Member of the scientific program committee, Salerno, Italy
2020 “The European R users meeting, e-Rum2020”, Member of the scientific program committee, UMB
2019 “Smart Statistics for Smart Applications”, Italian Statistical Society Conference, Member of the scientific program committee, Università Cattolica (IT)
2016 “Methodological tools for accountability systems in education”, Member of the scientific program committee, Joint Research Center of the European Community (IT)
INVITED SEMINARS IN ITALY AND ABROAD
2025 “Diverging Paths: Work and Family Trajectories of Japanese Men and Women”, University of Milano-Bicocca, A Story Still in Progress: Women between Rights, Stereotypes, Questions and Opportunities, Univerisity of Milano-Bicocca
2025 “Latent variable modelling approaches”, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, EpiCentro – Epidemiology for Public Health – OKkio alla SALUTE
2024 “Impact and Developments on Social Science Research of Discrete Latent Variable Models”, Osaka University of Economics, Japan
2024 “Latent probability models for cross-sectional and longitudinal data”, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Workshop on Latent Variable Models: Methodological and Applicative Developments for Lifestyle and Society
2022 “Analysis of Sacco Hospital longitudinal data by hidden Markov models”, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Workshop: Analisi causale delle determinanti dello stato di salute dei pazienti affetti da long-Covid sulla base di dati clinici, funzionali e strumentali: uno studio longitudinale multicentro
2021 “A multivariate statistical approach to predict COVID-19 count data with epidemiological interpretation and uncertainty quantification”, European COVID-19 Forecast Hub
2020 “Gender ideology and breadwinning patterns among couples: a focus on the Japanese society”, Interdepartmental Research Centre for Gender Studies, UMB
2020 “Multivariate causal hidden Markov model for the estimation of treatment effects in longitudinal observational studies”, University College London, Department of Statistical Science, UK
2019 “Latent (Hidden) Markov models and the LMest package in R”, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh
2019 “Heterogeneity among fertility patterns of couples employing Natural Family Planning methods”, International Institute for Restorative and Reproductive Medicine
2017 “A dynamic perspective to evaluate multiple treatments through a causal latent Markov model”, University of Catania
2016 “Longitudinal data analysis within the latent variable modelling framework: theory and illustrative examples”, University of Naples-Federico II
2016 “Latent Markov models for evaluation of the health care services”, University of Perugia
2009 “Introduction to the potential outcome approach to the evaluation”, Nova Universitas
2006 “The latent Markov model”, University of Lancaster, UK
2008 “An approximation of the quadratic exponential distribution for item response theory models”, University of Padova
MEMBERSHIPS
2021 - Classification and Data Analysis Group (Cladag)
2020 - Italian Econometric Society (SIdE)
2019 - Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics (SIEDS)
2009-2011 Psychometric Society
2010 - 2011 Royal Statistical Society, Psychometric Society
2006 - Italian Statistical Society (SIS)
2005 - Member of the Italian Statistical Society working group “Methodologies for Sample Surveys”
PARTICIPATION TO CONFERENCES AS INVITED SPEAKER
2024 “Impact and Developments on Social Science Research of Discrete Latent Variable Models”, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Behaviormetric Society, Osaka University of Economics, Japan
2024 “Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Regime Switching Student-t Copula Models”, 2nd International Conference on Computational Finance and Business Analytics (CFBA), Interscience Institute of Management and Technology, Odisha, India
2024 “Latent probability models for cross-sectional and longitudinal data”, Latent variable models: methodological and applicative developments for lifestyle and society, Kickoff meeting of Working Package 6.2 – “Stili di Vita e Società”, University of Perugia.
2023 Chair of the session “Methodological developments and applications for the assessment of student competencies”, Statistical Methods for Service Quality Evaluation, 11th International Conference IES 2023, Statistical Evaluation System at 360°, University of Chieti-Pescara
2023 Chair of the session “Latent variable and hidden Markov models for big data analytics”, 14th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society, University of Salerno
2021 “Variable selection in hidden Markov model with missing data”, ERCIM
2021 “A hidden Markov model for variable selection with missing values”, SIS
2021 “A Tempered Expectation-Maximization algorithm for latent class model estimation”, SIS
2018 “A latent variable model for a derived ordinal response accounting for sampling weights, missing values and covariates” ASMOD
2017 “A review of panel data models with a Markov dependent structure for univariate and multivariate ordinal responses”, ERCIM
2017 “Dynamic sequential analysis of careers”, CLADAG
2017 “Optimal model-based clustering with multilevel data”, IFCS
2016 “Modelling a multivariate hidden Markov process on survey data”, SIS
2015 “A discrete-valued latent stochastic process for the estimation of credit migration matrices”, ERCIM
2015 “Exploring the dependencies between epigenetic pathways and air pollution with the use of the latent Markov model”, Biometrics and Biostatistics
2015 “Latent Markov and Growth Mixture models: a comparison”, CLADAG 2015
2013 “Hospital efficiency under competing panel data models”, CLADAG
2009 “Impact evaluation of job training programs by a latent variable model”, CLADAG
2008 “The latent Markov Rasch model”, Psychometric Society
HONORS/AWARDS
2005 Press coverage with favorable comments for the work in Euroabstracts, “How well are European firms migrating to e-business”
2003 Marie Curie Fellowship for studies at the University of Lancaster, UK
2001 - 2004: National Scholarship for PhD studies (XVI cycle) at the University of Florence
2000 Italian Association for Consumer and Real Estate Credit (ASSOFIN) grant “Baldo Grazzini” at Findomestic Bank S.p.A
1998 - 1999: Italian Academic Exchange Service (ERASMUS), scholarship for studies in Sheffield, UK
1995 - 1999: University of Perugia scholarship for attending the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
1995 Livio Tempesta Honour: awarded “… for showing how, with altruism and goodness, one can be useful to one’s neighbour and, at the same time, strengthen one’s own personality so as to gain estimation of the schoolteachers and classmates”