Nominee Information Display – Lucia Paci

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Position Title/Affiliation
Associate Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Position Being Sought 2023
ISBA Board of Directors
Candidate Statement 2023
I’m Associate Professor of Statistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy). Prior to joining Cattolica University as Assistant Professor in 2016, I was a Post–Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna, where I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics. I’ve been a Visiting Scholar at Duke University, at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and at the University of Zaragoza. I'm currently treasure of EnviBayes, member of the ISBA Prize Committee and the ISBA Sponsorship Committee. I have also served ISBA as Program Chair of j-ISBA from 2016 to 2017. Beyond ISBA, in 2016 I chaired ySIS, the young section of the Italian Statistical Society.

My research interests focuses on Bayesian inference of spatial and spatio-temporal modeling, graphical modeling and mixture modeling. My data applications range from ecological and environmental processes to social and life sciences.

I have been a member of ISBA since I was a student and it's a great honor to run as a candidate for the ISBA Board of Directors. If elected, I will work to support Bayesian methods, promote the visibility of our community and foster interactions with other scientific communities, interdisciplinary and worldwide.
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