Simone Padoan is associate professor at the Bocconi University of Milan from 2020. He is reseach fellow at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) from 2020. From November 2016 he is a research fellow at the Bocconi Institute of Data Science and Analytics (BIDSA), Bocconi University of Milan. He has been an assistant professor at the Bocconi University of Milan from 2012. He has carried out research as: a post-doc at Ecole Poytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from February 2008 to December 2010, a research fellow at the University of Bergamo from January 2011 to September 2011 and a senior research fellow at the University of Padua from October 2011 to August 2012.
He received his PhD in Statistics in 2008 and his Degree in Statistics in 2004 from the University of Padua.
During his PhD he spent about two years at the school of mathematics and statistics at the University of New South Wales.
His main research interests concern the theory of extreme values, spatial data analyses, estimation methods for complex models based on Bayesian and likelihood approaches.