Marta Pittavino is a Senior Lecturer at the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of the University of Geneva. She teaches statistical courses both at the Bachelor ("Statistical Modelling") and at the Master level (“Forecasting with applications in Business"). She also coordinates the recent Master in Business Analytics. She holds a doctorate in Biostatistics from the University of Zurich and she has a background (M.Sc. and B.Sc.) in Mathematics from the University of Turin. Before joining the GSEM, she was an applied statistician, for her post-doctoral experience, at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon. Her research interests lies in the applied statistics field, data analysis (i.e. regression models, sample size calculations),  with a particular experience on the development of Bayesian hierarchical models for epidemiological studies.