FRANZOLINI BEATRICE

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Statistics (STAT-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
STATISTICS (13/STAT-01)

Biography

Beatrice Franzolini is an Assistant Professor of Statistics. Her research interests lie in Bayesian statistics and probabilistic modelling, with a focus on random probability measures, dependent and dynamic models, clustering, and change-point detection, with applications to biostatistics and the social sciences.

She obtained her PhD in Statistics from Bocconi University in 2022. Before joining the University of Milano-Bicocca, she held research positions including a research fellowship at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore and a junior assistant professorship at Bocconi University. Her work has been recognized with early-career awards, including the 2024 IMS New Researcher Travel Award and the 2025 ISBA Blackwell–Rosenbluth Award.

Publications

  • Ascolani, F., Franzolini, B., Lijoi, A., Pruenster, I. (2024). Nonparametric priors with full-range borrowing of information. BIOMETRIKA, 111(3), 945-969 [10.1093/biomet/asad063]. Detail

  • Franzolini, B., Lijoi, A., Pruenster, I. (2023). Model selection for maternal hypertensive disorders with symmetric hierarchical Dirichlet processes. THE ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 17(1), 313-332 [10.1214/22-AOAS1628]. Detail

  • Franzolini, B., Cremaschi, A., Van Den Boom, W., De Iorio, M. (2023). Bayesian clustering of multiple zero-inflated outcomes. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A: MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, 381(2247), 1-16 [10.1098/rsta.2022.0145]. Detail

Awards

Research and teaching assignments

  • Attivita' di insegnamento - Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" MILANO, 2019 - 2020
  • Attivita' di insegnamento - Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" MILANO, 2020 - 2021
  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Ricercatore Post-Doc - Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" MILANO, 2024 - 2025
  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Ricercatore Post-Doc - Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" MILANO, 2023 - 2024
  • Ricercatore all estero - Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 2022 - 2023