Paolo Girardi is a research fellow in Psychometrics (M-PSI/03) at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology and the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua. He received his degree in statistics in 2007 and a PhD in Biosciences from the University of Verona in 2012. He worked for six years at the Veneto Region as a statistical analyst in the Epidemiological Health Services with research fields that included occupational epidemiology and spatial statistics. His current research interests cover interdisciplinary issues related to the applied statistics in Psychology, Public Health, and Medical Science with applications regarding the analysis of functional data, classification techniques, and statistical methods for epidemiology. He is a member of several societies, such as the Italian Association of Epidemiology (AIE), Statistical Italian Society (SIS), and the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP).