Prof. (Dr.) Francesco Bartolucci
University of Perugia, Italy

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Prof. Francesco Bartolucci is a Full Professor of Statistics in the Department of Economics of the University of Perugia (IT), where he also coordinated the Doctorate program in “Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Economic and Social Sciences”. Among his research interests, hidden Markov models and discrete latent variable models in general have a special role. On these topics he published papers appeared in prestigious journals of Statistics and Econometrics and he coauthored two books with an international publisher. He collaborated with many young researchers even within graduate programs and acted as Reviewer and Associate Editor for important field journals. He also acted as a reviewer within evaluation programs of the Italian University system. He participated in several research programs, even with the role of coordinator. He was the Principal Investigator of the research project “Mixture and latent variable models for causal inference and analysis of socio-economic data”, which was funded by the Italian Government. He is an Editor of Statistical Modelling: An International Journal.