ANNA VIDOTTO
Structure:
Dipartimento di SCIENZE DI BASE ED APPLICATE PER L'INGEGNERIA
SSD:
MATH-03/B

News

Durante il primo semestre dell’anno accademico 2026/2027 insegno 3 CFU di Mathematical Methods for Chemical Engineering insieme al Prof. Roberto Conti (6 CFU).

During the first semester of the 2026/2027 academic year, I am teaching 3 ECTS credits of Mathematical Methods for Chemical Engineering alongside Prof. Roberto Conti (6 ECTS credits).

Receiving hours

Mercoledì 10-12, edificio RM001, stanza L018.

Wednesdays 10-12 AM, building RM001, room L018.

Curriculum

Academic positions and titles

Since March 17th 2025: Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) in Probability (SSD MATH-03/B) at the Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI) of Sapienza University of Rome.

Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per Professore di II fascia, settore 01/A3 (Analisi Matematica, Probabilità e Statistica Matematica), February 2025-February 2037

December 30th 2021 - March 16th 2025: Assistant Professor (RTD-A) in Probability (SSD MAT/06) at the Mathematics and Applications Department of the University of Naples Federico II.

February 1st 2020 - December 29th 2021: Assistant Professor (RTD-A) in Probability (SSD MAT/06) at the Economics Department of the University "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara.

February 2019 - January 2020: PostDoc researcher (Assegnista di Ricerca) at the department of Mathematics of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in the research team of Domenico Marinucci.

Research interests

Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. In particular:

Probabilistic approximations via Stein-Malliavin techniques and related methods (see this webpage by Prof. Ivan Nourdin)

Geometric properties of random fields on manifolds

Statistical properties of time dependent random fields on the sphere

Preprints

A. Vidotto, G. Zheng. Functional second-order Gaussian Poincaré inequalities, arXiv:2506.13571, 2025

Publications

A. Caponera, D. Marinucci, A. Vidotto. Fractional Cointegration of Geometric Functionals, to appear in Analysis and Geometry of Random Fields, Springer INdAM Series, October 2026

A. Caponera, D. Marinucci, A. Vidotto. Multi-Scale CUSUM Tests for Time Dependent Spherical Random Fields. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–20, 2026

G. Ascione, A. Vidotto. Time Changed Spherical Brownian Motions with Longitudinal Drifts, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, volume 181 , March 2025

C. Macci, M. Rossi, A. Vidotto. Non-Universal Moderate Deviation Principle for the Nodal Length of Arithmetic Random Waves, ALEA Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1601-1624, 2024

D. Marinucci, M. Rossi, A. Vidotto. Fluctuations of Level Curves for Time-Dependent Spherical Random Fields, Annales Henri Lebesgue, vol. 7, 583-620, 2024

M. Notarnicola, G. Peccati, A. Vidotto. Functional Convergence of Berry's Nodal Lengths: Approximate Tightness and Total Disorder, Journal of Statistical Physics 190, Article number: 97, 2023

A. Vidotto. Random Lipschitz-Killing Curvatures: Reduction Principles, Integration By Parts And Wiener Chaos, Special issue on the Theory and Applications of Random Fields dedicated to the 90th birthday of Professor M. Yadrenko, Journal: Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, vol. 106, 157-175, 2022

D. Marinucci, M. Rossi, A. Vidotto. Non-Universal Fluctuations of the Empirical Measure for Isotropic Stationary Fields on S^2 x R, The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 31, no. 5, 2311-2349, 2021

A. Caponera, C. Durastanti, A. Vidotto. LASSO estimation for spherical autoregressive processes, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, vol. 137, 167-199, July 2021

A. Vidotto. A Note on the Reduction Principle for the Nodal Length of Planar Random Waves, Statistics and Probability Letters, volume 174, July 2021

G. Peccati, A. Vidotto. Gaussian Random Measures Generated by Berry's Nodal Sets, Journal of Statistical Physics 2020, vol. 178, no. 4, 996-1027

A. Vidotto. An improved second order Poincaré inequality for functionals of Gaussian fields, Journal of Theoretical Probability 2020, vol. 33, no. 1, 396-427 (see the auxiliary file: Appendix A)

C. Döbler, A. Vidotto, G. Zheng. Fourth moment theorems on the Poisson space in any dimension, Electronic Journal of Probability 2018, vol. 23, paper no. 36, 1-27

Invited talks

Invited speaker at the Special session Improvements in climate models for attribution, extreme phenomena and climate change impacts, at the 2nd Joint Meeting Brazil-Italy in Mathematics. Messina, 7-11 September 2026

SPP-2265 Workshop on Order and Disorder in Random Geometries: Hyperuniformity and Topological Data Analysis at the Castle of Reisensburg (Germany), 6-10 July 2026

Contributed session Asymptotic properties of Gaussian fields of the 5th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Palermo (Italy) June 8-12, 2026

Invited speaker at the Rome Joint Seminars on Stochastic Dynamics, Control, and Learning, EIEF (Rome), 14 May 2026

Conference FCPNLO 2026 (Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators), Riemann International School of Mathematics, Varese (Italy), 16-20 February 2026

Contributed session Limit Theorems Through the Lens of Wiener Chaos and Stein-Malliavin Techniques at SPA 2025, 44th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Wroclaw (Poland), 14-18 July 2025.

International Conference PRIN GRAFIA. Cortona, 16-20 June 2025.
Conference Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Caserta), 7-9 May 2025

Invited session Statistics for Geosciences at CFE-CMStatistics 2024, King's College London, 14-16 December 2024.
Fall School Time Series, Random Fields and beyond, Ulm University, 23-27 September 2024

INdAM workshop Analysis & Geometry of Random Fields. Rome, 4-6 September 2024.

Special session Analysis, control and inverse problems in climate sciences, at the AMS-UMI international joint meeting. Palermo, 23-26 July 2024
ECM mini-symposium Non-local operators and stochastic processes: fractional processes, random fields, and applications. Sevilla, 15-19 July 2024.

Fourth Italian meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Roma, June 10th-14th 2024
Stochastics Seminars, Univesity of Liverpool, May 17th 2024

Webinars of the UMI group PRISMA (PRobability In Statistics, Mathematics and Applications), May 6th 2024
Geometric and Topological Properties of Random Algebraic Varieties, University of Cologne, October 4th-6th 2023
XXII Congresso UMI, University of Pisa, September 4th-8th

Probability Seminar of the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, June 23rd 2023

Random Nodal Domains, University of Rennes, June 5th-9th 2021

Stochastic Models for Complex Systems 2023, Lecce, May 18th-19th 2023

Third Italian meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Bologna, June 13th-16th 2022

Probability Seminar, University of Padua, May 25th 2022

Statistics Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, April 6th 2022

YAMC - Young Applied Mathematicians Conference, Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy, September 13th-17th 2021

Geometry of Random Nodal Domains, University of Rennes, September 6th-10th 2021

Second Italian meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Vietri sul Mare, June 17th-21st 2019

Young Mathematicians Symposium of the Greater Region, INRIA, Nancy, September 24th-25th 2018

RTG 2131 Workshop: Stein’s method and Malliavin calculus, recent developments and future perspectives, Ruhr Universität Bochum, December 6th-7th 2017

First Italian meeting on Probability and Statistical Mathematics, Turin, June 19th-22nd 2017

Research Projects

INdAM - GNAMPA per il progetto Dinamica di Campi Aleatori su Varietà, PI: A. Vidotto, 2026

INdAM - GNAMPA per il progetto Geometria di Onde Aleatorie su Varietà, PI: A.P. Todino, 2024

INdAM - GNAMPA Project Geometria stocastica e campi aleatori, PI: C. Durastanti, 2020

MIUR Excellence Department Project awarded to the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata", CUP E83C18000100006, 2018-2022

FNR Luxembourg - AFR Project High-dimensional challenges and non-polynomial transformations in probabilistic approximations (HIGH-NPOL), 2015-2018

Education

PhD degree in Mathematics obtained at the University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication. Thesis: New probabilistic approximations for non-linear functionals of random fields and random measures, thesis of PhD degree in Probability, under the supervision of Professor Giovanni Peccati, 29th of November 2018.

Master’s degree with honors in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Thesis: “Fourth Moment Theorems by Stein-Malliavin techniques and Markov generator theory”, thesis of master’s degree, with Professor Domenico Marinucci, 22nd of October 2015.

Bachelor’s degree with honors in Statistics, Economics and Finance, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Information Technology, Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, July 2012. Thesis: “State Space representations of DSGE models and Structural VARs”, thesis of bachelor’s degree in Econometrics, with Professor Massimo Franchi, July 2012.

High school diploma in classical studies, Liceo Statale Torquato Tasso, Rome, Italy, June 2009

Referee activity
Bernoulli Journal
Electronic Communications in Probability
Statistics and Probability Letters
Electronic Journal of Statistics
Stochastic Processes and their Applications
Journal of Theoretical Probability
Journal of Time Series Analysis

Teaching

Courses AY 2025/2026
Elements of Physics and Statistics (co-Professor with Gianluigi Casse, in Italian). Bachelor in Technical professions for construction and land, Sapienza University of Rome.
Statistics Lab (Professor – in Italian). Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.
Mathematical Methods for Chemical Engineering (co-Professor with Roberto Conti – in English). Master Degree in Chemical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

Courses AY 2024/2025
Complementi di Probabilità e Statistica Matematica (Professor – in Italian). Master Degree in Mathematics, University of Naples Federico II.

Courses AY 2023/2024
Complementi di Probabilità e Statistica Matematica (Professor – in Italian). Master Degree in Mathematics, University of Naples Federico II.

Courses AY 2022/2023
Complementi di Probabilità e Statistica Matematica (Tutor – in Italian). Master Degree in Mathematics, University of Naples Federico II. Course held by Prof. Enrica Pirozzi

Courses AY 2019/2020
Analisi Matematica (Professor – in Italian). Bachelor in Economics and Finance, Università degli Studi "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara.
Geometria per il Design (Professor – in Italian). Degree in Design, Università degli Studi "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara
Matematica Generale (Tutor – in Italian). Bachelor in Economics and Finance, Tor Vergata University of Rome. Course held by S. Viaggiu

Courses AY 2017/2018
Analysis 1 (Tutor – in English). Bachelor in Engineering and Physics, University of Luxembourg. Course held by H. Parlier

Courses AY 2016/2017
Analysis 1 (Tutor – in English). Bachelor in Engineering and Physics, University of Luxembourg. Course held by P. Bonneau
Analysis 2 (Tutor – in English). Bachelor in Engineering and Physics, University of Luxembourg. Course held by J.M. Schlenker

Courses AY 2015-2016
Analysis 2 (Tutor – in English). Bachelor in Engineering and Physics, University of Luxembourg. Course held by J.M. Schlenker

Languages
Italian (native)
English (level C1)
French (level B1)

Lessons

Lesson codeLessonYearSemesterLanguageCourseCourse codeCurriculum
AAF1874LABORATORIO DI STATISTICA1st2ndITAMechanical Engineering33479Curriculum unico
1011710PROBABILITA' E STATISTICA2nd2ndITAEnvironmental Engineering33473Curriculum unico
10630371MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING - MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING II1st1stITAChemical Engineering33486Chemical Engineering for innovative processes and products - in lingua inglese
10630371MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING - MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING II1st1stITAChemical Engineering33486Ingegneria Chimica
10630371MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING - MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING II1st1stITAChemical Engineering33486Ingegneria Chimica dei materiali