Simone Padoan, a New Assistant Professor Specialized in Extreme Values

HE STRENGTHENS THE DEPARTMENT OF DECISIONS SCIENCE

Simone Padoan joins the Department of Decision Sciences as an assistant professor in the academic year 2012-2013. Padoan comes from the Department of Statistical Sciences of Università di Padova, where last year he received a senior research grant for the support of innovative and excellent research plans for young researchers. The funded project, entitled “Multivariate and Spatial Extremes”, concerned the modeling of multivariate and spatial extreme values.

Previously, Padoan was assistant in the department of Information Technology and Mathematical Methods of Università di Bergamo (2011), research assistant in the Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale di Losanna (2008-2010) and visiting student at New South Wales University a Sydney (2006-2007).

After graduating, Padoan continued his studies in Statistics at Università di Padova, where in 2008 he obtained a PhD with the dissertation Computational Methods for Complex Problems in Extreme Value Theory: the extreme value theory is the field which conveys the main interests of his research, which he has presented in several international conferences and seminars.

He is a member of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) since 2007.

by Laura Fumagalli