Marta PITTAVINO

Education

2016  Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Universität Zürich, UZH, Structured PhD Program in “Epidemiology
and Biostatistics”, Faculty of Science, Zurich, Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. R. Furrer.

2009 -- 2011  M.Sc. in Mathematics, graduated “cum laude”, with the Best Master Thesis Award, Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO,
Torino, Italy. Supervisors: Prof. E. Venturino and Prof. M. Giacobini.

2006 -- 2009  B.Sc. in Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO, Torino, Italy.

2001 -- 2006  Maturità Scientifica, Liceo Scientifico ‘Giuseppe Peano’, Cuneo, Italy.

Professional Experience

From 12/2023 --  Assistant Professor in Statistics with Tenure Track (RTD-B), Ca’ Foscari Università 
of Venice (UNIVE), Department of Management, Venice School of Management (VSM), Venice, Italy.

02/2023 -- 11/2023  Assistant Professor in Statistics (RTD-A), Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI),
Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications "Giuseppe Parenti" (DISIA), Florence, Italy.

09/2019 -- 07/2023  Senior Lecturer (Maître d’enseignement et de recherche), Université de Genève, UNIGE,
Research Center for Statistics, RCS, Geneva School of Economics and Management.
Lecturer for two Bachelor courses and a Master class, Master thesis advisor and Program Manager.

09/2017 -- 08/2019  Senior Research Associate, UNIGE, GSEM, Geneva.
Scientific Coordinator, Senior Teaching Assistant and Program Manager for the Master of Science in
Business Analytics: MaBAn, https://www.unige.ch/gsem/en/programs/masters/business-analytics/.

01/2016 -- 08/2017  Post-Doctoral Scientist, International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, World Health
Organization, Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Lyon. P.I.: Dr. P. Ferrari.

2012 -- 2015  Research Assistant, Universität Zürich, Section of Epidemiology and I-Math Institute, Zurich.

2011  Junior Statistician, Det Norske Veritas, DNV GL, Torino, Italy.

2009 -- 2010  Student Assistant, Università degli Studi di Torino, Math Department, Torino.

Awards and Fellowships

2022 GSEM Pedagogical Innovation Prize, Escape Game Learning, launched by GSEM for
developing and promoting innovative pedagogical methods: https://www.unige.ch/gsem/fr/apropos/
actualites/all/2022/innovation-pedagogique/marta-pittavinos-project-selected-forthe-
gsem-pedagogical-innovation-initiative/.

2018 ISBA Travel Award, funded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

2017 French Scientific Qualification for ‘Maître de Confèrence’, Section 26: Applied Mathematics
and Statistics, conferred by the French “Conseil national des universités”, CNU.

2013 Best Master Thesis Awards, Awards “Silver Medal” and “Luciana Picco Botta”, sponsored
by Universitá degli Studi di Torino, for the best thesis in Mathematics for the year in which I
graduated: https://www.unito.it/ateneo/gli-speciali/i-migliori-laureati/anno-2010-2011.

2012 Fellowship “Post-graduate research abroad in interdisciplinary topics”, funded by the
Caligara Foundation, https://www.fondazionecaligara.it/.

2011 Scholarship “Master Thesis in interdisciplinary topics”, funded by Caligara Foundation.

Professional Services

Academic boards and committees

2023 --           Member of the ERASMUS Commission of the Venice School of Management, Venice, UNIVE.

2022 -- 2023  Member, MaBAn Scientific Committee, Master Program Committee of the GSEM, UNIGE.

2021 -- 2023  Vice President, Participatory Council, ‘Conseil Participatif’, of the GSEM, UNIGE.

2020 -- 2021  Member, Participatory Council, ‘Conseil Participatif’, of the GSEM, UNIGE.

2020 -- 2023  Member, Commission for the Renewal of Teaching Staff Mandates of the GSEM, UNIGE.

2017 -- 2023  Member, MaBAn Advisory Board, responsible for the partnership between the GEM, ‘Groupement
des Entreprises Multinationales’, and GSEM, UNIGE.

Organization of scientific events

2023 Organizer of the Scientific Meeting: "The Demography of Ageing State-of-the-Art and Challenges", Florence, Italy.

2022 Organizer of the Round Table for the UNIGE Data Science Day 2022, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.

2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Organizer of the MaBAn Speed Recruitment Meeting event at GSEM, Geneva, Switzerland.

2016 Co-organizer, Satellite Conference for “IARC’s 50th Anniversary” at IARC, Lyon, France.

2015 Organizer, Event for “World Statistics Day” at Campus Irchel, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland.

Research Interests

Additive Bayesian networks and Bayesian hierarchical models applied to epidemiological studies,
choice of suitable priors, statistical data analysis, regression models, forecasting methods.
Medical protocol drafting. Robust and mixed models regression techniques applied to tax and
philanthropic data. Demographic study: estimation and forecast population.

Languages

Italian:  Mother tongue
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
German: Basic

Computational skills

Softwares: R, Statistica, SAS, JAGS, WinBUGS (Unix and Windows), Stata, Mathematica, MATLAB.
R package abn: an R package for data modelling with additive Bayesian networks. Contributor and
Former Maintainer. Available from the Comprehensive R Archive Network, CRAN.

Seminars and Conferences

Invited talks

2023

CMStatistics 2023, Computational and Methodological Statistics, HTW Berlin, University of
Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
The Demography of Ageing State-of-the-Art and Challenges, Workshop for the PNRR ”Age-It”
Research Program - Spoke 1, Università di di Firenze (UNIFI), Firenze, Italy.
UPS Seminar, Population and Society Unit (UPS), Department of Statistics, Computer
Science, Applicatins "Giuseppe Parenti" (DISIA), UNIFI, Firenze, Italy.
DISIA Welcome Seminar, DISIA, UNIFI, Firenze, Italy.
Data Science Tools 2023, Competence Center on Data Science (CCDS), Geneva, Switzerland.

2022

CMStatistics 2022, Computational and Methodological Statistics, King’s College London,
London, UK.
Torino Seminar Series in "Stochastics and Mathematical Statistics", UNITO, Torino, Italy.
Conférence AGEFI Magazine Philanthropie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Welcome Home Workshop 2022, UNITO, Torino, Italy.
UNIGE Data Science Day 2022, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.
UNIGE Pedagogical Innovation Team Seminar 2022, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.
MIT Statistics Seminars Series, MIT, Boston, USA.

2021

CMStatistics 2021, Computational and Methodological Statistics, King’s College London,
London, UK.
UNIGE Data Science Day 2021, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.

2020

Welcome Home Workshop 2020, UNITO, virtual workshop.
Taxation and Philanthropy Conference 2020, UNIGE, virtual conference.
Launch of the new Data Science Competence Center, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.

2018 Statistics seminars, Research Center for Statistics, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.

2017

Welcome Home Workshop 2017, Round Table Leader, UNITO, Torino, Italy.
Statistics seminars, International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, Lyon, France.
Biostatistics seminars, I-Math Institute, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland.

2016 Probability seminars, Math Department, UNITO, Torino, Italy.
2014 VPHI Seminar, UNIBE, Bern, Switzerland.
2013 VPH Annual Conference 2013, UNIBE, Bern, Switzerland.
ZGSM Graduate Colloquium, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland.
2012 Welcome Home Workshop 2012, UNITO, Torino, Italy.
2011 Vth Biannual National Conference DI.FI.MA. 2011, UNITO, Torino, Italy.