Sandra de Iaco

Sandra De Iaco is a Professor in Statistics and coordinator of a PhD programme at the department of Economic Sciences – section of Mathematics and Statistics – of the University of Salento (Italy).

She earned a Phd in Statistics, with a dissertation in "Space-time covariance models", at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) in 1999. Her research interests are in spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistics, particularly in covariance modeling and stochastic interpolation with applications on environmental data. She is an active member of the editorial board of Spatial Statistics and chair of the lecturers committee of the iAMG. She published more than a hundred scientific contributions as well as two software packages.