Marco Corazza has a PhD in "Mathematics for the Analysis of Financial Markets" and is an associate professor at the Department of Economics of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). His main research interests include static and dynamic portfolio management theories; trading system models; machine learning applications in finance; bio-inspired optimization techniques; multi-criteria methods for economic decision support; port scheduling models and algorithms; and non-standard probability distributions in finance. He has participated in several research projects, at both the national and international level, and is the author/coauthor of one hundred and twenty scientific publications, some of which have received national and international awards. He is also editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal "Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance", and is a member of the scientific committees of several conferences and of some private companies. His combines his academic activities with consulting services.
María Durbán is a professor of Statistics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). Her main areas of research are non-parametric regression, smooth mixed models and regression models for spatio-temporal data. She has numerous publications in these topics and their application in areas such as epidemiology, economics, and environmental sciences. She has been part of many scientific committees of international conferences.
Aurea Grané is a professor of Statistics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). Her research interests are mainly in goodness-of-fit, multivariate techniques for mixed-type data, functional data analysis and she has published numerous papers on these topics in international journals. She has been a member of several scientific committees of international conferences, and was co-director of the Master in Quantitative Techniques for the Insurance Sector and vice-director of the Department of Statistics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.Cira Perna is a professor of Statistics and head of the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno (Italy). Her research mainly focuses on non-linear time series, artificial neural network models and resampling techniques, and she has published numerous papers on these topics in national and international journals. She has been a member of several scientific committees of national and international conferences.Marilena Sibillo is a professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Salerno (Italy). She has several international editing engagements and is the author of over a hundred publications. Her research interests are mainly in longevity risk in life contracts, de-risking strategies, personal pension products and mortality forecasting.