Gaia BERTARELLI

Gaia Bertarelli is an Assistant Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She obtained a BSc in Mathematics and a Master degree in Biostatistics and Experimental Statistics from the University of Milano Bicocca. She enrolled in the doctoral program in Statistics of the University of Milano Bicocca in 2012. Under the supervision of Prof. Maria Giovanna Ranalli, she was awarded a PhD in December 2015. In the following years, she worked at the University of Perugia and at the University of Pisa as post-doc researcher; and at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa as junior assistant professor, before moving to Venice in February 2023.

Her research fields include small area estimation (SAE) methods, robust statistics, latent variable models, and multidimensional composite indicators. The fields of application of her research mainly concern healthcare systems, gender differences, and the multidimensional aspects of poverty. She was FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and Save the Children ONLUS consultant and she was involved in several projects funded by the European Union. Since 2015, she has been collaborating with ISTAT (the Italian National Institute of Statistics) on projects aimed at SAE methodological development and on educational poverty. In 2019-2020, she chaired the section ySIS, the under 35 statisticians’ group of SIS, the Italian Statistical Society.