Paolo Postiglione is Professor in Economic Statistics at University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He has been a visiting researcher at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at Regional Research Institute of West Virginia University, and received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chieti - Pescara in 1998.
Currently, he is the Principal Investigator for University "G. d’Annunzio" of Chieti- Pescara for the Horizon 2020 Project "Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe" (IMAJINE), H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016. His research interests mainly concern regional quantitative analysis, spatial statistics and econometrics, regional economic convergence, models for spatial non-stationary data, agricultural statistics, and spatial sampling. He is author of a book edited by Springer, several articles on peer review journals and other publications on these topics.
Roberto Benedetti is Professor in Economic Statistics at University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He obtained a PhD in Methodological Statistics in 1994 from "La Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy). From 1994 to 2001, he was employed at ISTAT (the Italian national statistical office) as Research Director as the head of the Agricultural Statistical Service.
He was visiting researcher at the National Centre for Geographic Information Analysis of the University of California at Santa Barbara, at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology of University of Wollongong.
His current research interests focus on agricultural statistics, sample design, small area estimation, and spatial data analysis. On these topics he published a book edited by Springer and many articles on referred journals.
Federica Piersimoni is Senior Researcher at Processes Design and Frames Service in the Methodological Department of the Italian National Statistical Institute, since 1996. She spent more than ten years at the Agricultural Statistical Service within the Economic Department in the same institution. She was visiting researcher at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology of University of Wollongong. In 1999 she received a Specialization Degree in Operational Research and Decision Theory from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chieti-Pescara in 2014. Her main research interests concern disclosure control, and sample design, on which topics she published a book edited by Springer and journal papers.