Education and Academic Positions:\n- Full Professor of Statistics (Padova since 2018).\n- Associate Professor of Statistics (Padova 2006-2017).\n- Assistant Professor of Statistics (Padova 2002-2006)\n- Post-doc position (Padova 1998-2002).\n- Ph.D. in Statistics (Padova 1997).\n- Degree in Statistics summa cum laude (Padova 1993).\n- Research visiting position (Geneve CH, 1996; Cagliari 2014).\n--------------------------------------\nResearch:\n- Research interests: Higher-order asymptotics, Likelihood and Bayesian inference, objective priors, Pseudo-likelihoods, Estimating equations, Robustness.\n- Author of more of 70 papers on international journals (Journal of the American Statistical Association, Statistica Sinica, Bayesian Analysis, Statistics and Computing, ... and on international journals in medicine). See: https://homes.stat.unipd.it/lauraventura/content/pubblicazioni-pagina-personale\n--------------------------------------\nResearch grants:\n- Scientific coordinator of the Padova local unit of the PRIN 2015 (P.I. Liseo).\n- Scientific coordinator of the Progetto di Eccellenza Cariparo 2011 "On the use of advanced statistical techniques in medical research".\n- Scientific coordinator of Progetto di Ateneo 2011, University of Padova, "Modern Bayesian and frequentist inference: case studies in biostatistics".\n- Scientific coordinator of the Padova local unit of the PRIN08 (P.I. Vidoni).\n- Member of the Padova local unit of the PRIN06 and 03 (P.I. Vidoni), PRIN01 and 98 (P.I. Racugno), MURST 40% 1996 (P.I. Diana), Padova research unit of the UE research project on "Geometry and Computer Algebra in Statistics and Probability" (P.I. Kendall, Univ. Warwick) 1993-97.\n--------------------------------------\nProfessional activities:\n- Referee for scientific journals (Bernoulli, Biometrika, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Statistica Sinica, Test,...).\n- Scientific coordinator of the International Workshop "Recent advances in statistica inference: theory and case studies", Padova, 21-13 march, 2013. See workshop2013.stat.unipd.it.\n- Member of the Scientific and/or Organizing Committees of several international conferences (COMPSTAT, IECMSA, ISNPS, SISBayes, ISBA, SIS).\n- Member of "Nucleo per la Ricerca Clinica", IRCCS Ospedale San Camillo (Lido di Venezia)\n--------------------------------------\nRecent invited talks (international conferences):\n- 2018 Workshop "Statistics when the model is wrong", Harvard University\n- 2017 Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology, Austin\n- 2016 ISBA World Meeting 2016, Pula\n- 2015 ERCIM 2015, London + Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology, Valencia\n- 2014 ERCIM 2014, Pisa\n- 2013 Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology, Duke\n--------------------------------------\nTeaching:\n- Courses of Statistics, Statistical Models and Statistics in Medical Research at undergraduate and graduate level.\n- Courses on Robust Methods, Bayesian Inference, Asymptotics and Generalized Linear Models in the Master and Phd programmes.\n- Postdoctoral supervision (2007, 2009, 2014, 2016) and PhD supervision (XXVI, XXIV, XVII cycle).\n--------------------------------------\nCurrent administrative positions:\n- from 2014 Head of undergraduate programmes in Statistics, Padova\n- from 2008 Member of the Academic Board PhD in Statistics, Padova \n\n\n\n\n

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