Research fellow

Dr. Domenicano graduated with honors in Statistical and Decision Sciences from the University of Rome-La Sapienza. After graduating, he obtained a PhD in Methodological Statistics from the same university with a thesis entitled “Some contributions to Phase I and II Clinical Trials: incorporating patient characteristics and potential time trends into designs and analysis”. During her PhD, she did a research stint in Boston at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard University. Subsequently, he did a joint research postdoc between the Yale School of Public Health and the West Haven Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center (CSPCC), Department of Veterans’ Affairs (CT, USA), and then held a full-time position as a biostatistician at the Palo Alto CSPCC Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Since 2023 he has been a research fellow at the Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of the University of Ferrara. Here he plays the role of biostatistician by collaborating in numerous research projects at local, national and international level, and supporting students of the degree course in medicine and surgery, degree in psychiatric rehabilitation technician, and at the specialization school in psychiatry in carrying out their final papers.
Her research topics concern the use of machine learning techniques, the application of survival models, and the use of longitudinal models in the context of the onset of psychotic pathology, the mental health of women, psychoncology, and adherence to pharmacological treatment in patients diagnosed with schizophrenic spectrum disorder.