RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests include Bayesian modelling in time and space; Bayesian model choice and variable selection; computational statistics; environmental and ecological statistics. My expertise is in developing temporal and spatial models with a latent Markov process, e.g. hidden Markov models and spatial hidden Markov models for the classification of the observations into a small set of homogeneous groups; Markov switching autoregressive models for the analysis of non-linear and non-normal time series. I applied my models to air quality control, hydrology, image analysis, biogeography, and animal movements. The objects of my current research are: (1) the analysis of the river temperature dynamics through Markov switching autoregressive models and how water temperature is affected by meteorological and environmental variables; (2) the analysis of animal movements in the sea through Markov switching vector autoregressions for high-frequency data recorded by data storage tags.

The list of my publications is available at http://www.bioss.ac.uk/~luigi .

QUALIFICATIONS
PhD in Statistics, University of Trento (1999)
Degree in Economics, Catholic University of Milan (1994)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2012-present - Senior Statistician (BBSRC Grade E), BioSS, Aberdeen
2008-2012 - Statistician (BBSRC Grade D), BioSS, Aberdeen
2005-2006 - Associate Researcher, University of Venice
2003-2005 - Associate Researcher, University of Piemonte Orientale
2002-2003 - Visiting Researcher, Athens University of Economics and Business
2001 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Athens University of Economics and Business
1999-2001 - Associate Researcher, University og Bergamo

April 2021-present - Visiting Professor in the School of Economics, Catholic University of Milan.