About Me
Hi! I am Alessandro, a Senior Biostatistician at Red Door Analytics in Stockholm, Sweden.
I hold a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Leicester. Previous to that, I studied biostatistics and experimental statistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and statistics and computing technologies at the University of Padua.
My background is mostly methodological, covering the areas of survival analysis, correlated data analysis, statistical simulation and computational statistics, with a pinch of causal inference here and there. My PhD focussed on the analysis of electronic health records, exploring biases and studying the performance of modern analytical methods; my thesis is openly available online from the Leicester Thesis Archive. A list of my scientific contributions can be found on Google Scholar, and click here to download a copy of my CV.
I also enjoy creating tools in R to empower other researchers and build more open, more powerful, and more reproducible data analysis pipelines. I regularly contribute to open-source packages: I expand on software packages I developed (and contributed to) in the software section of this website. To this end, I am currently a member of the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Software Engineering Working Group.
Other things I enjoy, in no particular order: basketball, food (as in eating, cooking, sharing), travelling, technology, podcasts, typography, and all things data, pizza (yes, pizza is so good it deserves a special mention). I like running, cycling, and hiking, especially when the weather is kind, and I wish I had more spare time to read all the books from my backlog and catch up with all the video games I haven’t played in the past decade or so.
If you want to get in touch feel free to send an email to alessandro(at)ellessenne.xyz
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