Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Biographical note
I am a Lecturer at the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. I obtained my PhD in Statistics from Bocconi University with a one-year visiting period at MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston. I am a fellow of Dondena (Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy), BIDSA (Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics) and of the CovidCrisis Lab (Laboratory for Coronavirus Crisis Research). I am also affiliated with the Bruno Kessler Foundation and I am a member of MIDAS, a global network of scientists and practitioners who develop and use computational, statistical and mathematical models to improve the understanding of infectious disease dynamics.
Research interests
Mathematical modelling and statistical analysis of infectious disease data, Interplay between respiratory infections and social interactions, Economic evaluation of healthcare programs with particular interest in vaccination programs and in resource-poor settings.
Selected Publications
Measles immunity gaps and the progress towards elimination: a multi-country modelling analysis
THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2017
Pressure on the health-care system and intensive care utilization during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Lombardy region of Italy: a retrospective observational study in 43.538 hospitalized patients
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 2022
Characterizing the transmission patterns of seasonal influenza in Italy: lessons from the last decade
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 2022
Bayesian Mixture Models for Assessment of Gene Differential Behaviour and Prediction of pCR through the integration of copy number and gene expression data
PLOS ONE, 2013
Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, 2021
Retrospective analysis of the Italian exit strategy from COVID-19 lockdown
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2021
Long-term measles antibody profiles following different vaccine schedules in China, a longitudinal study
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2023
Coexpression of CD49b and LAG-3 identifies human and mouse T regulatory type 1 cells
NATURE MEDICINE, 2013
The containment of potential outbreaks triggered by imported Chikungunya cases in Italy: a cost utility epidemiological assessment of vector control measures
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2018
Evaluation of humoral and cellular response to four vaccines against COVID-19 in different age groups: a longitudinal study
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY, 2022
Risk of symptomatic infection during a second coronavirus disease 2019 wave in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-seropositive individuals
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2022
A repeated cross-sectional analysis on the economic impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic at the hospital level in Italy
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2023
Estimating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in educational settings: a retrospective cohort study
INFLUENZA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES, 2023
The new quadrivalent adjuvanted influenza vaccine for the Italian elderly: a health technology assessment
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2022
Estimation of the incubation period and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants from contact tracing data
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION, 2023
Multivariate determinants of self-management in health care: assessing Health Empowerment Model by comparison between structural equation and graphical models approaches
EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOSTATISTICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2015
Effectiveness and economic assessment of routine larviciding for prevention of chikungunya and dengue in temperate urban settings in Europe
PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES, 2017
Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 cases and estimates of the reproductive numbers 1 month into the epidemic, Italy, 28 January to 31 March 2020
EUROSURVEILLANCE, 2020
Dynamic of mixed HCV infection in plasma and PBMC of HIV/HCV patients under treatment with Peg-IFN/ribavirin
MEDICINE, 2015
Survey of tuberculosis drug resistance among Tibetan refugees in India
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, 2014
Intrinsic generation time of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: an observational study of household transmission
THE LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH. EUROPE, 2022
A Bayesian framework for integrating copy number and gene expression data
Advances in Statistical Bioinformatics, 2013