Fabrizio Durante
Economics
University of Salento
Italy
Biography
Fabrizio Durante is Full Professor in Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at University of Salento in Lecce (Italy).He studied at the University of Lecce, Italy, where he has obtained his doctoral degree in Mathematics. After doctoral studies, he worked at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (2006–2010), Austria, where he has obtained the habilitation in Mathematics in 2010. Then, he has been Assistant Professor for Statistics (2010-2014) and Associate Professor for Statistics (2015-2016) at Free University of Bozen–Bolzano in Italy. His research activities focus on the fields of dependence and copula models, with particular emphasis on applications in quantitative risk management, reliability theory, environmental science and fuzzy sets. He has published 80 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (with impact factor), and other articles in peer-review volumes and conference proceedings. Recently, he has written with Carlo Sempi the book “Principles of Copula Theory”, which is published by CRC/Chapman & Hall. Moreover, he also co-edited three books devoted to various aspects of multivariate stochastic models and their applications.
Research Interest
Dependence and copula models, with particular emphasis on applications in quantitative risk management, reliability theory, environmental science and fuzzy sets.
