about – Lorenzo Rimella

# Education and work
I completed my B.Sc. in Mathematics for Finance and Insurance and M.Sc. in Stochastics and Data Science at UNITO (Università degli Studi di Torino) in the metropolitan city of Torino (capital of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861). During my postgraduate studies, I was also an "Allievo" at Collegio Carlo Alberto, which awarded me with a Master in Statistics and Applied Mathematics. From September 2017 to May 2021, I was lucky enough to be a PhD student at the University of Bristol, amazingly supervised by Prof. Nick Whiteley. During my PhD, I was also an enrichment student at The Alan Turing Institute of London. From April 2021 to March 2024, I was a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, collaborating with Prof. Paul Fearnhead and Prof. Chris Jewell on the development of new statistical methodologies with a focus on epidemiological applications. During this period, I was supported by Bayes4Health (EPSRC grant EP/R018561/1) and the DRUM project, and I also served as the organizer of the Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) reading group at Lancaster University. From April 2024 to June 2025, I was "assegnista" (postdoc) at UNITO, and I was also affiliated to Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Since July 2025 I hold the position of Assistant Professor (Researcher Tenure Track) of Statistics at the Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche of the Università degli studi di Bergamo. If you are interested, you can find my CV here (accessed in July 2025).

# Personal interests
I enjoy hiking in the nature especially when it is challenging. I have climbed nine of the 82 summits of the Alps that are above 4000 metres and I hope to continue climbing more as long as my legs and climate change permit. Since I was a teenager, training is part of my life, but only in the last few years I started focusing more on weightlifting and a well-balanced diet. Along with hiking and weightlifting, I am also a big fan of climbing and calisthenics. Like many scientists, I take board games seriously, especially if they are complex and competitive. For any fellow nerds reading this, I would highly recommend the following games:

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