Elvezio Mauro Danilo Ronchetti

Born 1955, Swiss nationality.

Education

1979
Diploma in Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich (Polya Prize)

1982
PhD degree in Mathematics with a thesis in Statistics, ETH Zürich
Adviser: Prof. F.R. Hampel, ETH Zürich
Co-referees: Prof. I. Olkin, Stanford University (USA), Prof. C. Field, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

Employment

March-August 1983
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

1983-1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Princeton University (USA)

1986-2013
Professor of Statistics, Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

2014-2021
Professor of Statistics, Research Center for Statistics and Geneva School of Economics and Management,
University of Geneva (Switzerland)

2021-
Professor Emeritus, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

1996-2012
Professor of Statistics, Faculty of Economics,  University of Lugano (Switzerland) (20%)

Research Interests
  • Robust statistics
  • Small sample asymptotics ; saddlepoint methods ; empirical likelihood
  • Estimation and inference in latent variable models
  • Econometrics
Languages

Italian, English, French, German

Awards

1974  Maraini prize, Liceo Cantonale, Lugano
1979  Polya prize, ETH Zürich
2001  Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
2008  Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
2016  CMStatistics Award
2018  Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Main Appointments
Consulting
  • Consulting projects at the ETH and the University of Zürich (1979-1982)
  • Statistical design of 3 experiments (ES 031) for 3 Spacelab missions, in collaboration with the Department of Biochemistry of the ETH Zürich (Prof. A. Cogoli, 1983)
  • The Nursing Homes in the Canton of Ticino (1988)
  • MonteShell, Milano (1989)
  • Logitel, Geneva (1992)
  • Evaluation permanente des patients admis en Centre de Traitements et de Readaptation (Canton Vaud) (1995-96)
  • EDF, Paris (2007)
  • Banco Popolare, Verona (2014)