Education
2011 PhD in Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; dissertation title: “On the proof of efficacy of functional foods: design considerations”
2007 Master of Science in Epidemiology, University of Torino, Italy; thesis title: “Integrazione dei dati del Registro Tumori di Torino con il flusso informativo SDO
in uno studio di sopravvivenza nel tumore della mammella” (Linking Turin Cancer Registry data and hospital administrative data in a study on survival from breast cancer)
2001 Degree in Mathematics, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Academic Position
2018 - Associate Professor of Medical Statistics, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
2011-2018 Assistant Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Padova, Italy
2005-2008 Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Torino and C.P.O. Piemonte, Italy

Institutional Activities
2003-2010 Biostatistics advisor within the EPICLIN project, held from the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of the S.G. Battista University Hospital of Torino, to provide
methodological support to research teams through collaboration in the design, conduct and statistical analysis of clinical studies.
2011- present Independent biostatistician of an international Data Monitoring and Safety Committee for a multicentre phase III clinical trial in hematology.

Teaching Activities
2016- Director of the Master in Machine Learning at the University of Padova
2011- present Medical Statistics in Undergraduate Courses at the University of Padova
2002-2010 Medical Statistics in Undergraduate Courses at the University of Torino (teaching assistant)

Research interest
Application of modern state of the art biostatistical methodology to experimental studies - mainly randomized clinical trials in pharmacological research and nutrition - and to observational studies including large administrative databases in health services research. Comparison and critical evaluation through simulations and applications to real data of proposed biostatistical methods.

Grants (as Principal Investigator)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Progetti di Grande Rilevanza 2012-2014)
University of Padova (Assegni junior 2013, Ateneo 2013, S.I.D. 2017)

Scientific journal peer-reviewing
2017 Food Research International, Eating Behaviours, Topoi, BioMed Central Public Health
2016 International Journal of Cardiology
2015 Appetite, Journal of Health Psychology
2014, 2008 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
2013 Value in Health, Journal of Biological Regulators
2013-2012, 2009 BioMed Central Health Services Research
2012 International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, International Wound Journal, British Journal of Nutrition, BioMed Central Pregnancy and Childbirth
2011 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
2008 Clinical Therapeutics

Scientific meeting peer-reviewing
2016 Invited reviewer for the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Applied Public Health Statistics section
2011-2012 Invited reviewer for the Italian Association of Epidemiology (AIE) annual meeting

Membership in Scientific Societies
2007- present Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology (SISMEC)
2011- present Biometrician Industry Associates (BIAS)

Author of 67 ISI-indexed publications (cumulative Impact Factor: 300, h-index: 21).