I am originally from Italy, I grew up in a small town surrounded by the mountains (Limana, in Belluno); most of the times, even Italians don’t know where it is.

I studied at the University of Padova (Italy), where I obtained both my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Statistical Sciences. While juggling between the Master’s thesis and a work experience as a Marketing Analyst, I decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Statistics, always in Padova.

During the Ph.D. I worked on prior-based cluster allocation in Bayesian mixture models, under the supervision of Bruno Scarpa & Amy Herring. I had the chance to spend about a year as visiting research scholar in North Carolina, first at UNC at Chapel Hill and then at Duke University.

After obtaining my Ph.D., I ended up moving to the Bay Area and became a Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, jointly between the Statistics and ESPM departments. There I have researched computational aspects of applied Bayesian statistics, collaborating with Perry de Valpine & Chris Paciorek.

Pandemic and other things brought me to Boston, where I got a position as a Research Fellow at Harvard University, in the Department of Biostatistics. I did some work with Jeff Miller on developing statistical methods for early cancer detection.

I have now moved to the Midwest, where I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University.

Aside from academic life, I do have a good amount of hobbies to keep me busy. I like hiking, bouldering, and (periodically) running. I am a quite crafty person, I—inconsistently—try to draw, practice photography—incidentally, birdwatching— and picked up crocheting, mostly to make yarn cute creatures called amigurumi. Talking about cute creatures, I have a tremendous fascination for red pandas.