Orietta Nicolis earned a degree in economics with a specialization in mathematics and statistics in 1995 at the University of Verona, Italy. She obtained her PhD in Statistics applied to Economical and Social Sciences in 1999 at the University of Padua (Italy) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in statistics at the University of Brescia (Italy) from 2002 to 2012. She has worked as Researcher and Aggregate Professor of Statistics at the University of Bergamo (Italy), in the Department of Information Technology and Mathematical Methods. From 2012 to 2018 she was working at the University of Valparaiso as an associate and then full professor. Since August 2018, she has been a professor at the Engineering Faculty of the University Andres Bello en Viña del Mar (Chile), where she was director of the Master's in Computation Sciences program in the period 2019–2020, and she is currently part of the Masters Commission. She is the co-author of several scientific publications and responsible for national and international projects. Her research interests are: time series analysis, spatial and spatial temporal models, wavelet analysis, computer science, and machine learning methods.