Download Alessandra Giovagnoli

Alessandra Giovagnoli is now a Professor of the Alma Mater. She was full professor of Statistics at the
Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna, and a member of the Department of Statistical Sciences.
She was on the teaching board of the PhD Programme in "Statistical Methodology for Scientific
Research". Previously she was associate professor of mathematics at the University of Perugia and
professor of mathematical statistics at the University of Udine
Her main research area is Design of Experiments and sequential experiments. Another keen interest is
stochastic order relations. She is also actively involved in some bio-medical and technological
applications of statistics.
She graduated in mathematics at Rome University and later obtained an M.Phil. in Algebra and an
M.Sc. in Statistics, both from the University of London. She has taken part in a very large number of
national and international meetings and has acted as a referee for several national and international
statistical journals. She served on the Editorial Board of Biometrika and was Associate Editor of SMA,
the journal of the Italian Statistical Society.
She was a member of the International Statistical Institute and other scientific societies and from 1987
to 1992 was on the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. She has links with several
statistics departments abroad and was Delegate of the Faculty of Economics (1996-2003) for the
Socrates-Erasmus students and teachers exchange scheme.
In the past she has been involved in activities for promoting Equal Opportunities and Women in
Science and is now a member of the Association of Academic Women of the University of Bologna
(AdDU). Her hobbies are gardening and films. Also books and travelling.
For a more formal presentation see below
Bologna, 14 maggio 2011
Alessandra Giovagnoli
BORN
Rome, 8.6.1943
DEGREES:
Laurea in Mathematics 1965, University of Rome; Master of Philosophy in Algebra, 1970, London
University; M.Sc. Statistics, 1976, London University.
POSITIONS:
Professor of Statistics, Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna 1995-2010. Up to 1991 was
associate professor of mathematics at the University of Perugia, and from 1991 to 1995 had a chair of
mathematical statistics at the University of Udine.
From 1997 to 2010 was on the teaching board of the Bologna PhD Programme on "Statistical
Methodology for Scientific Research". Has taught courses for PhD students at the Universities of
Perugia, Pavia, Milano Bicocca.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Design of experiments with applications to technology and medicine. Stochastic
orderings. Sequential designs
PUBLICATIONS in Biometrika, J. Roy. Statistic. Soc. C, Proc. Royal Soc. London, J. Statist. Planning and
Inference, Statist. and Probability Letters, Linear Algebra Appl., Computational Statist. & Data
Analysis and the major Italian statistics journals.
INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS Has taken part in a large number of national and international statistical meetings,
sometimes as invited speaker or discussant. From 1987 to 1992 was on the European Regional
Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
From 1996 to 2004 was the organizer of the Socrates-Erasmus Exchange Schemes of the Faculty of
Economics. Took care of student and staff exchanges with the Universities of Glasgow, Plymouth,
LSE, EBSL, Cork;, Augsburg and WarwickHas also taught short courses at City University, London
(1989), at the E.C.A.S. school at Sete, France (1992), the "International Summer School on Statistical
Computing" in Perugia (1993), Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (2009) e l’Università di
ENSAI, Rennes, Francia (2010).
Has continuing active links with statistical departments all over the world. In 2011 has been invited as
residential visitor at the Newton Institute in Cambridge.
GRANTS
1. CNR Contracts 93.00495.CT01 and 94.00089.CT01: MODERN STATISTICAL METHODS FOR
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT in robust industrial design and production.
2. MURST COFIN98 Project "Methodologies for the Design of Experiments and their Applications"
(National coordinator).
3. Project MURST-CNR on "Statistical Methods for Supporting Decisions" together with the Gruppo
di studio del Policlinico S.Orsola - Malpighi sul Monitoraggio Microbiologico Clinico e la
sensibilita'/resistenza agli antibiotici (2000-2004).
4. 2002-2004 member of PRO-ENBIS, a thematic Network within the V framework Programme of
the U.E. (G6RT-CT-2001-05059), whose mission is to promote the widespread use of sound science
driven applied statistical methods in European business and industry
REFEREE
for a large number of national and international scientific journals including Biometrika, J. Royal
Statistical Society (B), Annals of Statistics, J. Statistical Planning Inference, Statistical Science,
The Statistician, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Statistica, Metron, and
several Proceedings of Meetings of the Italian Statistical Society.
MEMBERSHIPS and BOARDS
Member of the International Statistical Institute, IMS, Bernoulli,
ENBIS. Has been on the Editorial Board of the J. Italian Statistical Society, Statistical Methods
and Applications and of Biometrika.