Current position:

2020 - now Associate Professor of Econometrics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna.

Previous position:

2018 – 2020 Assistant Professor in Econometrics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna.

2016 – 2021 Director of the Professional Master Programme in Quantitative Risk Management (QRiM), University of Bologna, Italy (in collaboration with Crif S.p.A.)

2011 – 2017 Assistant Professor in Econometrics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna.

2010 – 2011 Post-Doc position for the project “Latent variable methods for financial issues” at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna.

2006 – 2007 Winner of a research grant for the project “Generalized models for latent variables: methodological developments and applied aspects” at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna.

Education:

2007 – 2010 Ph.D in “Statistical methodology for scientific research” at the Statistical Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Italy. Dissertation: “Latent variable methods for financial issues” (in Italian). Defence: March 30th 2010.

2009 – 2009 Visiting Ph.D student at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1997 – 2002 Degree in Statistical and Economic Sciences at the Statistical Sciences Faculty of the University of Bologna, Italy.