Gaia BERTARELLI

Position
Researcher
E-mail
gaia.bertarelli@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Statistica sociale [STAT-03/B]
Website
www.unive.it/people/gaia.bertarelli (personal record)
Office
Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe
Research Institute
Research Institute for Social Innovation
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

Gaia Bertarelli is an Assistant Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She obtained a BSc in Mathematics and a Master degree in Biostatistics and Experimental Statistics from the University of Milano Bicocca. She enrolled in the doctoral program in Statistics of the University of Milano Bicocca in 2012. Under the supervision of Prof. Maria Giovanna Ranalli, she was awarded a PhD in December 2015. In the following years, she worked at the University of Perugia and at the University of Pisa as post-doc researcher; and at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa as junior assistant professor, before moving to Venice in February 2023.

Her research fields include small area estimation (SAE) methods, robust statistics, latent variable models, multidimensional composite indicators and integration methods for different types of data. The fields of application of her research mainly concern health systems, gender differences and multidimensional aspects of poverty and sustainable well-being. She is a consultant for FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and for Save the Children ONLUS, and since 2018 she has been involved in several projects funded by the European Union. Since 2015 she has collaborated with ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics) on projects aimed at the methodological and applicative development of SAE models in official statistics and concerning the definition and measurement of educational poverty.

In 2019-2020 she was councilor and coordinator of the ySIS section, the group of statisticians under 35 of the SIS, Italian Statistical Society. For the two-year period 2024-2025 she is an elected member of the coordinating group of S2G, the SIS Survey Sampling group. Since 2024 she has been associate editor of the scientific journal "Statistical Methods and Applications" (fascia A - Area 13 - ANVUR) and editor of the "Book and Software" section of The Survey Statistician, the magazine of the IASS (International Association of Survey Statisticians).