Education
| 03/1997 – 09/2000 | PhD student at the (former) Department of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne |
| 01/09/2000 | Doctoral Exam. Thesis: “Practical Small-Sample Parametric Inference”. Supervisor: Prof. Anthony C. Davison |
| 10/1990 – 06/1996 | Undergraduate student in Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova (Italy) |
| 28/06/1996 | Master exam (Laurea) in Statistics and Economics. Thesis: “Calcolo simbolico e inferenza asintotica per modelli lineari generalizzati” (in Italian). Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Salvan |
Positions held
| 15/12/2009 – current | Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova (Italy) |
| 01/09/2006 – 14/12/2009 | Associate Professor of Statistics at the (former) Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) |
| 15/10/2001 – 31/08/2006 | Researcher (permanent position) at the (former) Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IsIB) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Padova |
| 17/09/2001 – 12/10/2001 | Postdoctoral visiting position at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Toronto (Canada) |
| 01/10/2000 – 30/09/2001 | Research fellow at the former Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IsIB) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Padova |
| 01/03/1997 – 30/09/2000 | Research and teaching assistant at the (former) Department of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne |
Awards and nominations
| 2001 | Second prize at the 16th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling Best Poster Competition (together with Prof. Laura Ventura) |
| 2001 | John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award |
| 2001 | Nominated by the Institute of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne for the 2000 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Best PhD Thesis Award |
| 1999 | First prize at the 14th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling Best Student Poster Competition (together with Prof. Ruggero Bellio) |
| 1998 | American Statistical Association Statistical Computing Section Student Paper Competition Award |
Memberships
American Statistical Association
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
International Statistical Institute
Italian Statistical Society
The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Curriculum vitae
available upon request (alessandra.brazzale AT unipd.it)