Since the academic year 2000/01 he is fixed-term Professor of Statistics at the University of Cassino for the undergraduate courses in “Economics for the Agricultural System“ and “Economics for Tourism”. He is teaching assistant for the undergraduate courses of “Statistics” and “Statistics for Business Management” (regular Professor Dr. Roberta Siciliano), “Statistics and Forecasting” (regular Professor Dr. Francesco Mola) at the faculty of Economics of the University of Naples Federico II, as well as in the undergraduate course of “Statistics” at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cagliari (regular Professor Dr. Francesco Mola).

His present research interests concern regression (parametric, non and semiparametic), time series analysis for financial data, statistical learning methods, missing data imputation, data editing and multivariate data analysis.

During the 3-year PhD course he attended several seminars and courses. In the same period, and soon afterwards the Doctorate degree, he attended several conferences and workshops presenting both methodological and empirical results collected in his research activity. In particular, he gave an invited lecture at the First Workshop on Nonlinear Methods and Data Mining (Rome, Italy, Sept. 2000) and at the Fifth International Conference on Logic and Methodology (Koln, Germany, Oct. 2000).

He awarded an EC scholarship to attend the “7th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies”, IFCS'2000, (Namur, Belgium, July 2000). Recently, he awarded two scholarships to attend the VIII European Course in Advanced Statistics (ECAS), held in Lugano (Switzerland) in Oct. 2001, and the Euroworkshop on Statistical Modelling – Nonparametric Methods (Bernried, Germany, Nov. 2001) organized in the framework of the CORDIS EC Project on High Level Scientific Conferences.