Francesca Panero

Francesca Panero is an Assistant Professor (RTT) in Statistics at the Department of Methods and Models for Economy, Territory, and Finance (MEMOTEF) at Sapienza University of Rome. She also serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Statistics of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was previously an Assistant Professor until May 2024. Additionally, she maintains an affiliation with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.

Dr. Panero earned her PhD in Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2022, following undergraduate and master's studies at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto. Her academic journey reflects a strong foundation in mathematical and statistical theory applied to complex real-world problems.

Her research centers on Bayesian statistical methodologies with applications across multiple domains. She specializes in complex networks analysis using Bayesian nonparametric approaches, disclosure risk assessment for privacy preservation, spatio-temporal Gaussian process modeling for food insecurity prediction, and fair machine learning techniques. Her work demonstrates a consistent thread of developing rigorous statistical methods with practical societal applications, particularly in network science, privacy protection, and algorithmic fairness.

Dr. Panero's publications reveal a strong trajectory in high-impact statistical research, with recent work focusing on sparse network modeling, fairness constraints in machine learning, and privacy-preserving statistical techniques. Her methodological contributions bridge theoretical statistics with applications in social sciences, public policy, and computational challenges.

• 2025 Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of Informatics, University of the Italian Switzerland (USI)
• Elected as j-ISBA Chair Elect for 2025-2026
• Recipient of IMS junior research travel grant for ICSDS 2024
• Awarded LSE Research and Impact Support Fund (RISF) grant for food insecurity research

As an educator, Dr. Panero teaches Probability and Stochastic Processes at Sapienza University and has previously instructed Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence courses at LSE. She actively mentors students and encourages PhD candidates interested in her research areas to contact her. She is also a core member of GENIAL, an LSE focus group examining how students utilize generative AI tools for learning. Beyond her technical work, she has been engaged in equality, diversity, and inclusion initiatives since 2020 and maintains an active academic blog discussing data visualization, research projects, and academic life.