Elena Bortolato


About me

I work at CUNEF University in Madrid as Assistant Professor, before that I was a post-doctoral researcher in Statistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Data Science Center of the Barcelona School of Economics. I earned my PhD in 2024 under the supervision of prof. Laura Ventura and co-supervised by prof. Pierre E. Jacob (ESSEC) and prof. Robin J. Ryder (Paris Dauphine). My research interests include Bayesian and frequentist inference, robustness and misspecification, Monte Carlo methods, in particular Markov Chain Monte Carlo on manifolds

My CV

Publications

A list of publication is available on Google Scholar . code can be found on GitHub .

Preprints and Working papers

  • MCMC on manifolds and couplings, joint work with P.E. Jacob and R.J. Ryder
  • Birth death graphical models, with David Rossell and Stephen Hansen

    • Current teaching activity

  • Data Analysis, 2026-27, CUNEF, Double degree in Business Administration and Law

    • Seminars and conferences

    Upcoming talks

    Education

  • PhD in Statistics, Padova, 2024. Thesis title: Advancements in distribution sampling for statistical inference
  • Msc in Statistics, Padova, 2018-2020. Thesis title: Bias reduction in Multivariate equicorrelated Gaussian models (Best Thesis in Mathematical Statistics 2020, Società Italiana di Statistica)
  • Bsc in Statistics, Padova, 2015-2018. Thesis title: Methods and models for music analysis
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