Mauro Costantini is Professor of Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Social Science and Economics. Previously, he held the positions of Associate Professor and Professor of Economic Statistics, and Professor of Statistics at the University of L'Aquila, the positions of Lecturer of Economics/Econometrics at the University of Vienna and the Brunel University London, where he also held the position of Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the same field. He holds a PhD in Economics, Mathematics and Statistical Analysis of Social Phenomena. He also attended courses in probability, inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, time series analysis, econometrics, longitudinal data and simulation methods at the Master in quantitative methods, University of Rome Tor Vergata. His main research interests are forecasting, time series and panel data. He has published in international journals, such as Annals of Operations Research, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Statistical Papers and Statistics and Probability Letters. He regularly participates in international conferences. He holds editorial roles and carries out refereeing services for international journals and institutions. He has participated in international research projects. He has carried out extensive teaching activities at prestigious international institutions.