• Bayesian Statistics
• Clustering Algorithms
• Product Partition Models
• Computational Statistics

My primary research interests lie in the field of Bayesian statistics, both at the applied and theoretical level. I have focused on clustering models and searching the space of partitions, which are the main research areas of my thesis. I am determined to work further on this by exploring several other topics in this field. However, I am also keen to work in other areas of Bayesian statistics.

You can also see my list of publications and some presentations that I have given in the last few years.

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Imperial College London. (2011-2014)
• Brunel Fellowship, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol. (2009-2011)

• PhD in Statistics, University of Warwick, UK (2006-2009)
• MSc in Statistics, University of Warwick, UK (2005-2006) - with distinction
• Laurea Triennale in Statistica, Universita' di Firenze, Italia (2002-2005) - 110 e lode
• Diploma di maturita' classica, Liceo Classico Galileo Galilei, Firenze, Italia (1997-2002)
• High School Diploma, Talawanda High School, OH, USA (2000-2001)

• 'Highly commended' prize at the ISBA video competition. Award of travel funds to attend the Valencia meeting/ISBA in Spain. (2010)
• CRiSM Young Academic Award, CRiSM Workshop Subjective Bayes, University of Warwick. (2009)
• 1st CLADAG Young Researcher Data Mining Prize (with Mouna Akacha and Thais C. O. Fonseca), organised by the CLAssification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society and sponsored by SAS. (2009)
• Graduate Student & Post-doctoral Fellow Travel Fund, American Study & Student Exchange Committee (ASSEC), University of Warwick. (2009)
• Travel Award, Bayesian Biostatistics Conference 2009, Houston, Texas. (2009)
• CRiSM Scholarship, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. (2006-2009)
• Postgraduate Student Travel Award, 9th World Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Hamilton Island, Australia. (2008)
• Graduate Training Bursary. Royal Statistical Society, UK. (2007)
• MSc Bursary Award, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. (2005-2006)
• Best student of the Faculty of Economics and Business. Award to the student who had the highest results in the final exams and who graduated in the shortest time. University of Florence, Italy. (2004-2005)
• Summer Research Scholarship. Work on Combining R and Excel for analysing electricity load data supervised by Dr. Wiesner Vos. Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK. (6 weeks, in 2004)
• AFS Scholarship. Exchange student in USA for a year. Intercultura - AFS, Italy. (2000-2001)

• Postgraduate Statistical Consultant, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick (2008-2009)
• Administrative positions, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick: organizer of the Postgraduate Bayesian Seminar Series (2008), organizer of the Bayesian Theory reading group (2007-2008), SSLC (Student-Staff Liaison Committee) Secretary (2007-2008).
• CATI Interviewer at the Department of Statistics, University of Florence and at the Town Council of Florence, Italy (2002-2005)
• Volleyball Referee, FIPAV, Comitato provinciale di Firenze, Italy (2001-2005)

• Statistical Software: R, S-Plus, MATLAB, SAS, Arcview, SPSS
• Language and API: C/C++, LaTeX , Bash, HTML, OpenMP, Fortran
• Applications: Maple, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point
• Operating Systems:Linux, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, Unix