Phd in SCHOOL OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES

email: giovanna.jonalasinio@uniroma1.it
phone: (+39) 06 49910473 (int. 20473)
building: CU002
room: 28

Position: since March 2019: Full Professor at the DSS- University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Research:
Environmental Statistics: Ecology, climatology, geostatistics and space-time models. Multivariate estreme values. Environmental indicators: definition and evaluation. Environmental risk assessment. Bayesian modeling of directional data.
Forensic Statistics and signal processing. Since 2000 she has been involved in several EU projects (SMART) in collaboration with the Italian Scientific Police.

Consulting:
2012-2019 - Progetto SAMOBIS (Stima dello stato Ambientale in aree Marine costiere e dei rischi per l’Organizzazione della Biodiversita’) In collaboration with the Biology Department of the Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
2011-2012 – Sample design for the national survey on drug use - Council of Ministers Department for drug use prevention
2010 – Sample design for the national survey on drug use - Council of Ministers Department for drug use prevention
2007-2010 CONISMA GisPesca: a geografic information system for the Italian fishery sector
2007 Nursery Project with SIBM (Italian Society for Marine Biology)
2006 Mortality study for the Ciampino Municipality
2006-2007 Wave Climatology for the Mediterranean (APAT )
2004-2005 Assimilation of meteo-marine data in a coastal forecasting system (APAT )
2005-2006 Statistical Analysis of rainfall, hydrometric levels, flow and temperature available from the hydrological APAT’s data-warehouse (APAT )
2000-2005 CLIMAGRI: Subproject 3 Statistical evaluation of the artificial rain enhancement experiment (Puglia 1992-1994)

Recent Grants:
PRIN 2015 (3years): Environmental processes and human activities: capturing their interactions via statistical methods (EPHASTAT)- Coordinator of the local Rome unit

Invited talks since 2009:

2009, Institute of Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission Joint Research Center, Ispra (VA), “Italian research in Statistics and the Environment. The PM health effects: responses to source-related exposures” (joint work with A. Pollice).
2009, S.Co. 2009 – Sixth conference – Complex Data Modeling and Computational Intensive Statistical Methods for Estimation and Prediction, Milano, “PM health effects: responses to source-related exposures” (joint work with A pollice).
2009 TIES - the 20th Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society, a Section of the ISI, Bologna: Plenary session “Spatio temporal data modeling in environmental sciences a review Jona Lasinio G
2010, June, TIES 2010 – the 21st Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society, a Section of the ISI, Margarita Island (VE), “Identifying sources of PM10 pollution in the Taranto area” (joint work with A. Pollice).
2012, PM 2012 – 5th National Conference on Particulate Matter, University of Perugia “Statistical models and analyses of air quality monitoring data” (joint work with A. Pollice).
2012 TIES - the 22st Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society, a Section of the ISI Hyderabad: Wrapped Gaussian processe Jona Lasinio G, Gelfand AE
2013, Advances in latent variables: methods, models and applications - Conference if the Italian Statistical Society, University of Brescia, “Bayesian analysis of the multivariate dependence of three transitional water ecosystem classifications” (joint work with S. Arima, G. Jona Lasinio, A. Basset, I. Rosati).
2014 XXIV Conference of Italian Ecological Society - Biodiversity partitioning for transitional water ecosystems (joint work with Pollice A., Basset A., Arima S., Rosati I., Fano A.)
2013 XXIII Conference of Italian Ecological Society - A model-based approach to lagoon ecosystem classification (joint work with Arima S., Basset A., Pollice A., Rosati I.)
2013 XXIII Conference of Italian Ecological Society - Effect of global warming on mediterranean demersal communities: the case of parapenaeus longirostris along the western coasts of italy as indicator species for global warming in the mediterranean sea (joint work with Colloca F., Mastrantonio G., Sartor P., Ligas A.)
2014 ADISTA 2014: Wrapped Gaussian processes: a short review and some new results (joint work with G, Mastrantonio G, Gelfand A.E.)
2017 TIES Graspa Conference - Assessing the role of the spatial scale in the analysis of lagoon biodiversity. A case-study on the macrobenthic fauna of the Po River Delta (with Alessio Pollice, Anna Fano)
2017 ERCIM - London Bayesian model-based space-time joint interpolation of temperature and rainfall fields (with G. Mastrantonio, A. Pollice, C. Blasi, G. Capotorti, G. Genova, L. Teodonio)
2018 METMA - Montpellier Bayesian Measurement Error Correction in Structured Additive Distributional Regression with an Application to the Analysis of Sensor Data on Soil-Plant Variability (with A. Pollice, T. Kneib, R. Amato, S. Lang)
2019 ISI-World Conference Kuala Lumpur Bayesian hierarchical modeling of multivariate climate data (with Gianluca Mastrantonio, Alessio Pollice, Giulia
Capotorti, Lorenzo Teodonio, Carlo Blasi)
2019 ISI-World Conference Kuala Lumpur Using FAO’s methodology for monitoring SDG target 12.3 to estimate the environmental impact of food losses (with Carola Fabi and Alicia English)
2022 IES 2022 CONFERENCE Caserta January 2022 Assessment of the impact of anthropic pressures on the Giglio island meadow of Posidonia oceanic (with A. Pollice, G. Mastrantonio, G. Mancini, D. Ventura)

Recent Conference organization (scientific committees):
2019-2021 GRASPA - SIS biannual workshop (Regional TIES meeting- ISI satellite meeting)
2019-2020 ADISTA20 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain postponed to 2022)
2017-2019 Scientific Committee for the ISI world conference Kuala Lumpur 18-23 August 2019 (Malaysia) as TIES representative
2016-2017 - ADISTA 17 (Rome 8-9 June 2017)
2016-2017 - session organizer for the TIES/GRASPA meeting Bergamo July 2017
2015-2016 - TIES 2016 (Edinburgh). SIS 2016 (Salerno)
2015 Bari - GRASPA 2015/TIES European Regional meeting
2011 Foggia - SPATIAL 2/TIES European Regional Meeting

Bibliometric information(h index):
Scopus h-index: 21
Google scholar h-index: 20 (from 2019) 27 over all
Total citation (scopus): 1282
Total citation (Google scholar): 1990

Some Phd Thesis:
2022 M. Mingione "On the wide applicability of Bayesian hierarchical models"
2021 F. Onori "Official Statistics and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): statistical tools for handling complexity and comparability across countries"
2021 P. Alaimo Di Loro "Innovative approaches in spatio-temporal modeling: handling data collected by new technologies"
2015 G. Mastrantonio "Temporal And Spatio-Temporal Models For Circular And Circular-Linear Data"
2012 N. Golini "Bayesian Modeling for Presence only data"
2009 C. Ferrari "The wrapping approach for circular data Bayesian modeling"
2004 M. Bultrini "A nonparametric approach to spatial autoregressive models"
2004 A. Orasi “Ricostruzione di campi di pioggia tramite modelli spazio-temporali per l’analisi di incremento artificiale delle precipitazioni"
2002 S. Loriga- "Problemi di stima per dati spaziali multivariati"
1998 A. Capobianchi - "Analisi di dati spaziali multivariate"

Referee for: Journal of statistical computation and simulation, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Journal of statistical planning and inference, Environmetrics, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment , Ecological Modelling, Ecological Indicators, Statistical Methods and Applications,Biometrika, Biometrics, Biometrical Journal, Spatial Statistics

Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Statistical Methods and Applications; Environmetrics.

Other Activities

2017-2019 Secretary for the Environmental Section of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
2016-2017 Pubblication officer for the Environmental Section of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
From November 2022 Coordinator of PhD program in statistics at Sapienza University
Member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD program in statistics at Sapienza University
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) member and regional representative 2011-2015 (Europe)
Member of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) and of the Italian Ecological Society (SItE)
FIRB projects evaluation

Environmetrics: Guest editor in the special issue: Statistics for environmental decisions 2007 (with S. Fassò)
JSCS: Guest Editor in the special issue GRASPA 2016
Local coordinator for the COFIN 2002 Project: Statistics for environmental management: applications to space-time data series and environment-health interactions.
Local coordinator for the COFIN 2004 Project: Statistical methods for forecasting improvement in environmental sciences and the exploration and modelling of complex phenomena

1994 -1995 Post-doc (fellowship ) at the Institute for the Application of Calculus "Mauro picone" (I.A.C.) of the National Council of Research (C.N.R.),working with Prof. Mauro Piccioni and Doctor P. Barone) on MCMC algorithms for dependent observations.
1992 - 1994 she worked on her Phd thesis on Stochastic Algorithms based on Markov Chains for constrained estimation problems, with Mauro Piccioni (University of L'Aquila).

From August 9, 1993 to August 20, 1993 she attended the International Summer School on Computational Statistics, organized by International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), Italian Statistical Society (SIS) and the Department of Statistics University of Perugia, which has been held at the University of Perugia.

From August 1992 to December 1992 she was visiting the Statistics Department of Pennsylvania State University (State College), working with Colin Goodall on Bayesian estimation for graphical models, attending (without credits) the following courses: Multivariate statistical analysis (Prof. C.R. Rao), Statistics (advanced), SpatialStatistics (Prof. C. Goodall).
From January to August 1991 she was visiting the Statistics Department of Columbia University, supported by a fellowship from the Italian National Council of Research (C.N.R.), working with Prof. Colin Goodall on Bayesian estimation for graphical Gaussian models, attending (without credits) the following courses: Stochastic processes (Prof. I. Karaztzas), Mathematical Statistics, Special topics in Statistics (Prof. H. Robins).

From March to December 1990 teaching assistant in the graduate school on Social Research (university of Rome, Department of Sociology) and she continued her research in the field of spatial statistics.