Dr Claudio Fronterre

Claudio is a spatial statistician interested in disease mapping in Low-Resource Settings with a focus on the epidemiology and control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in sub-Saharan Africa. 

He obtained his Bsc in Economics and Management and his Msc in Finance from the University of Trento (Italy). He undertook his PhD in Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova (Italy). During this period he also spent over a year at CHICAS, Medical School, Lancaster University under the supervision of Prof. Peter J. Diggle. His research was mainly focused on investigating the effects and find corrections of positional errors for geostatistical models and point pattern analysis.