Historical notes

Full Professor of Statistics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (2011-2024); previously he was Full Professor at the University of Pavia (1990-2011) and Associate Professor and Researcher at the L. Bocconi University of Milan where he graduated in 1978 in Economic and Social Disciplines with subsequent postgraduate studies at University College London.
Over the years his research activity, always developed in the context of the Bayesian approach to inference, has covered numerous topics including: initial distributions, objective Bayesian inference, choice of model and Bayes factors, graphical models and Bayesian networks, experimental designs; causal inference, replication studies.
He is the author of over 50 publications, some of which have appeared in the best international journals of Statistics, including  Annals of Statistics, Journal of the Royal. Statist. Soc. Series B, Biometrika, Journal of the American Statist. Assoc., Statistical Science, Bayesian Statistics, Biometrics, as well as contributions to conferences and discussions.

He was Associate Editor of Bayesian Analysis, Test and Statistics Surveys.
He has been a visiting professor and scholar at numerous European and North American universities including Columbia University, Université Paris Dauphine, University of Zurich, Texas A&M University, Rice University, York University (Canada), University of Florida, University of Warwick.
He is a fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA),  an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a member of the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, as well as the Italian Society of Statistics. He was president of the Objective Bayes Section of ISBA (2018-19).
In 2004 he established, together with Fabrizio Ruggeri, the Applied Bayesian Statistics School, of which he was co-director until 2021. During his time as an incardinated professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (2011-2024) he founded the Master in Data Science for Management in the academic year 2016-17, of which he was director until 2024, and subsequently a member of the scientific council. In the academic year 2017-18 he conceived the course of study in Data Analytics for Business and Economics (profile of the Master's Degree in Statistical and Actuarial Sciences), subsequently transformed into an autonomous master's degree under the name Data Analytics for Business (DAB), holding the role of coordinator for both courses until 2024. Since his arrival at Cattolica, he has contributed to strengthening his doctoral training with Bicocca University, most recently with the PhD ECOSTATDATA, for which he contributed to designing the profile of the curriculum in Statistics as well as academic governance as a member of the Executive Board.
Also at Cattolica, both in his role as professor of the Faculty of Economics and as Director of the Department (2019-2023, with subsequent re-election until 2024), he promoted the strengthening of Data and Computer Science as increasingly relevant disciplines for Statistics.  It has fostered a culture of merit and openness to the outside world, also through the realization of seminars, initiatives for visiting professors and research awards for young scholars of the Department.  

Alessandro Rosina is Full Professor of Demography in the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of Milan, where he also directs the "Center for Applied Statistics in Business and Economics". 

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Statistical Society (until 2014). He is currently a member of the teaching staff of the PhD in "Statistics and Mathematics for Finance" of Milano-Bicocca and (until 2012) of the Board of Directors of the PhD School in Statistical Sciences of the University of Padua.

He is a member of the scientific council of various journals. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the "Italian Society of Historical Demography" and was editor-in-chief of the journal "Population and History" (period 2005-09). 
He has spent several periods abroad as a visiting scientist, in England at the Department of Social Statistics of the University of Southampton, in Germany at the Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock).
He has taught at the Universities of Padua, Sassari, Milano-Bicocca and IULM. He has carried out collaboration/consultancy activities in the scientific or educational field for Istat, Centro Dondena, Codici, Progetica, Cgil, Cisl, Acli, MediaMarket, Allianz Bank, Fondazione Nord Est, Fondazione Agnelli, Fondazione Ambrosianeum, Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, Centro Nazionale per il Volontariato, ConfArtigianato Imprese, ConfCooperative, Osservatorio ManagerItalia, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Municipality of Milan, Lombardy Region, Intesa San Paolo, Generali, Cariplo Foundation.
He has participated as an expert in various ministerial commissions ("PIAAC Project - Programme for the International assessment of Adult Competencies" and "Definition of multi-member districts of the Electoral Law 6 May 2015 n. 52 - Italicum"). He is a member of the Istat Scientific Committee on the Permanent Census (established in October 2013). He worked as an Italian expert in the "Mutual Learning Program" promoted by the European Commission on the topic "Targeting NEETs" (September 2015).
He belongs to the "Department of Statistical Sciences" of which he was director from November 2015 to October 2019.

Born in Milan on 15 December 1947. He graduated in Statistics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in 1972, having presented a thesis entitled "The central limit theorems in finite population sampling" and reporting a grade of 70/70.
Graduated in Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua in 1977, having presented a thesis entitled "A method for the approximation of stochastic processes conditioned by a linear differential transfer model" and reporting a grade of 110 cum laude.

Between 1969 and 1984 he worked in various companies; he has been interested in marketing studies, the creation of automatic design programs for glass containers, optimal control of production processes and has been responsible for the Training Service of the General Electric Information Services company. He has also worked in the field of Corporate Communication (Marketing Service of an advertising agency and creation of computer applications for media agencies).
From 1984 to 2017 He worked at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, first as a Researcher, then as Associate Professor of Statistics, at the Faculty of Economics and then, from 1 November 2003, as Full Professor of Statistics (SECS-S/01). The research activity has mainly developed on dynamic control topics and its various developments, applications in the medical and psychometric fields, data analysis and its applications in business statistics.
From 2011 to 2015 he was Director of the Department of Statistical Sciences.
From 1997 to 2017 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Laboratory of Statistics Applied to Economic and Business Decisions.
He is a member of the SIS Italian Society of Statistics.

He graduated in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan on 22 February 1965.
Employee of the Milan Chamber of Commerce, Research Office sector, from 1 April 1965 to 31 October 1970.
Lecturer in Social Statistics at the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of Milan from 1970 to 1975.
Lecturer in Statistics at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Turin from 1971 to 1975.

Winner of a competition for full professor, he was called in 1975 by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Turin to fill the chair of Statistics.
In the following year 1976 he was transferred to the Faculty of Economics of the University of Genoa, where, until the academic year 1982/83, he was director of the Institute of Statistics and was in charge of the courses of Statistics I and Statistics II.
From 1 November 1983 he was transferred to the Catholic University of Milan, first to the Faculty of Economics, until the academic year 1989/90, and from the academic year 1990/91 to the Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences, established on 10 July 1990. At the same faculties, since 1983 he has taught courses in Statistics and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.
From the establishment of the School of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences of the Catholic University of Milan, in July 1990, and until the academic year 2005/06, he was Dean of the same Faculty.
He was Director of the Journal "Statistica Applicata" in the four-year period 1996-1999.
He is a member of the Scientific Committees of the journals: Statistics, Applied Statistics, Statistics & Applications, Metron.
He has been a member of the Italian Statistical Society since 1975. He has been a member of the International Statistical Institute and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1980. He was a member of the European Committee of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability from 1980 to 1984.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Italian Society of Statistics from 1978 to 1986. For the Italian Society of Statistics he organized, as President of the Program Committee, the Conference on "Statistics and Natural Resources", held in Giardini Naxos in 1985.
He was President of the Italian Statistical Society for the four-year period from the 2000 Assembly to the 2004 Assembly.
From 2007 to 2011 he was Director of the Department of Statistical Sciences at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
He is the author of five volumes on the theory and applications of Statistics, and of over one hundred scientific articles published in national and international journals.
On the proposal of the School of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences and the Academic Senate of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, by decree of the Ministry of Education, Prof. Frosini was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2015.

Graduated in Economics and Commerce from the Catholic University and in Statistical and Economic Sciences from the University of Padua, he has been Full Professor of Statistics since 1990 at the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of Milan, after transferring from the Faculty of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna. He has taught courses at the Catholic University in Statistics, Statistics -advanced course-, Statistical Quality Control, Business Statistics and, at the University of Trento, Theory and Methods of Reliability. From 2002 to 2007 he was Director of the Institute of Statistics of the Catholic University.

Overall, the research activity concerned the deepening of statistical and probabilistic methodologies, related to the use of models suitable for the interpretation and analysis of data obtained from the spatio-temporal observation of natural phenomena. Research investigations have also been addressed to the field of inferential problems, on decision-making methods related to the problems of hypothesis verification and estimation of the parameters of polynomial regression functions, with links to the theory of confidence regions. In the field of Statistical Quality Control he has carried out research on Taguchi Methods and Process Capability Indexes.

He was a member of the Italian Society of Statistics, in which he participated in the Working Group "Statistics for Technology and Production", of the Italian Association for the Culture of Quality;  of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability;  of the International Statistical Society. He was National Coordinator of the Scientific Research Project of the MURST (1995-98) "Statistical, methodological and applicative problems, related to technological research and production control". He has been a member of the Ethics Committee of the Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS Foundation, I.R.C.C.S. Center, as an expert in Statistics.

Graduated in 1954 in Mathematics and Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Milan (grade: 110/110 cum laude). He was awarded the "Giulio Vivanti" prize for the best thesis in Mathematics and Physics in the two-year period 1952/1954.

Graduated in 1958 in Political Science from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (grade 110/110 cum laude).

He obtained and began teaching in Statistics from 1967 until 1973 when he became a permanent lecturer in "Theory of Samples" in the Faculty of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padua, where he later became Extraordinary Professor of Methodological Statistics. From 1978 to 2003 as Full Professor of Statistics (extraordinary until 31.12.1978) in the current Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan he taught in parallel with the Chair course in Statistics: Sample Theory, Probability Calculus, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Statistics (teaching carried out by assignment from 1983 to 2000 at the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Brescia) up to the placement out of tenure starting from November 2004, with the assignment of an official course. He was Director of the Institute of Statistics and the School of Statistics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan from 1978 to 2002

Promoter and then coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree Course - initially four-year since 1995 and then three-year since 2002 - in Statistical and Economic Sciences of the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, transformed in 2004 into the Bachelor's Degree Courses + two-year Master's Degree in Actuarial and Economic Statistical Sciences, interfaculty with the Faculty of Banking, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan.

Until 1974 he was able to gain direct experience in the application of statistical methodologies in the field of experimental research and control of industrial processes as head of the Statistical-Mathematical Assistance Office in the Montecatini Edison Group, chemical sector, with activities extended to the numerous laboratories and production centers of the Group, present in various parts of the national territory.

He was Coordinator of the Scientific Commission "Statistical analysis in the field of technology and production" of the Italian Society of Statistics from 1978 to 1981

While from 1981 to 1985 he was Coordinator of the section "Statistical analysis in the field of technology and production" of the "National Coordination Group for Statistical Studies" of the CNR.

From 1982 to 2015 he was a Councilor of the Italian Association of Centronord for Quality.

In 1983 he became a member of the International Statistical Institute and since 1993 of the American Statistical Association.

He was Coordinator of the Working Group "Statistics for Technology and Production" of the Italian Society of Statistics from 1990 to 2004

Since 2000 he has been a corresponding member and from 2005 to 2015 a full member of the Lombard Institute-Academy of Sciences and Letters.

He graduated cum laude in Statistical Science from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". In 1961 he entered the academic world as a voluntary assistant in Statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and in 1963 he became a lecturer in Statistics.

After graduating in 1968 from the competition for the chair of Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Trieste, in 1970 he won the competition for full assistant professor in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and became Director of the Institute of Statistics and the School of Statistics from the academic year 1971-72 until the academic year 1976-77.

Also in 1970 he was first in the competition for the chair of Statistics at the University of Venice, where he remained for a year as an extraordinary member also holding the position of Director of the Institute of Statistics.

In 1971 he was called by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Genoa and in 1974 as a full professor he was called by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Milan, where he has always held the role of Director of the "Marcello Boldrini" Institute of Statistical and Mathematical Sciences.

Promoter of the establishment of the School of Statistics within the Faculty of Political Science, transformed first into a degree course and then into the Faculty of Statistical Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca, in 1980 he became its Director.

In November 1998 he left the university service.

He was Consultant for Statistical Affairs of the European Community - Statistics Division and President of the Board of Actuaries of Cariplo-Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde.

He has been an actuary of some important Italian banks.