Spatial ARCH Model (SpaSta)
Inspired by the time-series ARCH model developed by Robert F. Engle (1982), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, we have introduced a univariate spatial ARCH model in 2016 (first published arXiv paper).
Since July 2024, I have been a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow, following a year as an Associate Professor (Reader) from 2023 to 2024. In June 2025, I was recognised as a Senior Fellow of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET) at the University of Glasgow, in recognition of my sustained commitment to high-quality, research-informed teaching and academic leadership. Additionally, I regularly teach in the PhD and M.Sc. programs at the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy, as a Guest Professor. Before joining the University of Glasgow, I spent four years as an Assistant Professor of Big Geospatial Data at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University Hannover. During the 2020-2021 academic year, I was honoured to be a Visiting Professor of Spatial Data Analysis and Statistical Learning at the University of Göttingen. Earlier, I led a junior research group focused on detecting and monitoring spatial and spatiotemporal clusters at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION at the European University in Frankfurt (Oder), where I also earned my Ph.D. in Statistics in 2016.
In my main research area (topic T.6863 "Spillover Effect; Panel Study; Autoregressive Model"), I am currently ranked 4th worldwide on Scopus and 1st among UK researchers (rated as top 5% scientists with their first publication in 2016 on ResearchGate, across all disciplines).
I am honoured to be a part of Carl Friedrich Gauss's academic lineage in the 9th generation, joining the group of 113,184 individuals who have followed in his scholarly footsteps (The Mathematics Genealogy Project). You can find my full academic genealogy here.
