Short CV
Current Position
[2/2023 - now] Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistics and Applied Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Leiden NL.
[1/2024 - now] Researcher in Medical Statistics at the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Center
[2/2019 - now] Lecturer & Teaching Assistant
Research Areas
Statistical Modelling, Biostatistics, Survival Analysis, Causal Inference, Longitudinal Data, Functional Data Analysis
Paediatric Oncology, Cancer Trial Data, Pharmacoepidemiology, Administrative Databases
Grants & Awards
[2024 - 2028] Research Grant by KWF Kankerbestrijding (Dutch Cancer Society, NL) - 935 k€
Project: "INDICATES - INDIvidualised loCAl Therapy for Ewing Sarcoma: a new clinical prediction tool" [2023-3; consortia 15461]
Principal Investigators: Dr. M. Spreafico, Prof.dr. M.A.J. van de Sande | Project Leader: Prof.dr. M. Fiocco[17/10/2022] Cum Laude PhD Award by Politecnico di Milano (Milan, IT)
Past Positions
[11/2022 - 1/2023] Researcher @Mathematical Institute, Leiden University (Leiden, NL)
[11/2018 - 10/2022] PhD Candidate @Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano (IT) & @Mathematical Institute, Leiden University (NL)
[Cotutelle PhD agreement; 11/2018 - 10/2021: based in Milan IT | 11/2021 - 10/2022: based in Leiden NL][5/2018 - 8/2018] Research Fellow @Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mathematics (Milan, IT)
PDTA project: Pharmacoepidemiological analysis of Healthcare Databases on Heart Failure[11/2016 - 4/2018] Junior Data Scientist @Indigo AI Srl (Milan, IT)
[11/2016 - 7/2017: External Collaborator | 10/2017 - 4/2018: Intern]
Business sector: IT for chatbots. Development of Machine Learning methods and algorithms (supervised, unsupervised, neural networks) applied to Natural Language Processing for conversational agents and chatbots
Education
[17/10/2022] PhD cum Laude in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering @Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mathematics (IT)
Thesis: Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data | Group: Health Analytics[12/10/2022] PhD in Mathematics @Leiden University, Mathematical Institute (NL)
Thesis: Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data | Group: Data Analysis and Survival for Personalized Oncology[19/4/2018] MSc in Mathematical Engineering - Applied Statistics @Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Thesis: Statistical modelling of adherence to drug prescription and its effects on survival in Heart Failure patients[24/9/2015] BSc in Mathematical Engineering @Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Thesis: Spatial Patterns Formation. Modelli per lo sviluppo degli spatial pattern
Board & Committee membership
[2024] Organising Committee for SIG Health Data Science meetings @Leiden University (Leiden, NL)
[2023 - now] Graduation Committee for MSc in Mathematics @Mathematical Institute, Leiden University (Leiden, NL)
[2022 - now] Graduation Committee for MSc in Statistics & Data Science @Mathematical Institute, Leiden University (Leiden, NL)
[2019 - 2022] Department Council (member as PhD Representative) @Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, IT)
[2019 - 2022] Educational Committee (member as PhD Representative) @Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, IT)
[2019 - 2022] PhD Department Representative Board @Politecnico di Milano (Milan, IT)
Associations
IBS – International Biometric Society, Dutch Region
ISCB – International Society for Clinical Biostatistics
SIS – Società Italiana di Statistica (Italian Statistical Society)
SISMEC – Società Italiana di Statistica Medica ed Epidemiologia Clinica (Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology)
AIM – Associazione Ingegneri Matematici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
(Association of Mathematical Engineers) - Member of the Board 2016, secretary
