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Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University

Emanuele is a Medical Research Council fellow in Biostatistics at the Lancaster Medical School. After completing his MSc in Statistics at the University of Padua, Italy, he joined the Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics at Lancaster University, where he studied for a PhD in geospatial statistical methods with applications to disease mapping under the supervision of Prof Peter Diggle.

His research interest is in the spatial epidemiology of tropical diseases and he has published work on malaria, plague, river-blindness and Loa loa. His current projects relate to the development of novel geostatistical techniques to combine data from multiple surveys, model spatially-structured zero inflation and carry out integrated analysis at multiple spatial scales. Since March 2016 he is also a lecturer at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Senior research associate, Lancaster University

Education

  • 2015 
    Lancaster University, UK, PhD in Statistics and Epidemiology
  • 2012 
    University of Padua, Italy, MSc in Statistics
  • 2010 
    University of Padua, Italy, BSc in Statistics

Grants and Contracts

  • 2015
    MRC Strategic Skills Development Fellowship
    Role:
    Principal investigator
    Funding Source:
    Medical Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • College of Experts, African Research Excellence fund
  • Royal Statistical Society
  • International Biometric Society