Luigi Palla is Associate Professor in Medical Statistics at the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases of University of Rome La Sapienza. Previously he was  Associate Professor at the University of Nagasaki School of Tropical Medicine (2019-2020) and Assistant Professor in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2013-2020). He worked also as biostatistician (2008-2013) in the field of genetic and nutritional epidemiology at the University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit and MRC Human Nutrition Research Unit and at the Department of Mathematics, Free University Amsterdam (2004-2007). Luigi Palla’s current research interests include the application of statistical and machine learning methods to data from  epidemiology, (chrono)nutrition, genetics. social science and demography.