Romano Scozzafava

He has been the editor of 'Rendiconti di matematica, Pure Mathematics and Applications, Induzioni and Cognitive Processing. He has been Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and Coordinator of the Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in Modelli e Metodi Matematici per la Tecnologia e la Società, University La Sapienza, Roma. He has been Guest Editor of special issues of Soft Computing in 1999 and of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence in 2002.

Scozzafava joined University of Lecce as full professor in 1976. After teaching at University of Lecce for three years, he left to join Sapienza University of Rome in 1979. Over two decades of career, he received several research grants from Ministry of Education and Research and National Council of Research to conduct research and write papers in the field of Bayesian Statistics, Probability and Artificial Intelligence. While teaching at Sapienza, he taught also at the Universities of Ancona, L'Aquila and Perugia. In 1994 and 1997 he served as the director of the International School of Mathematics G. Stampacchia of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily. From 2001 to 2009 he organized the international school ReasonPark (Reasoning under Partial Knowledge).

A special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning was dedicated to Scozzafava to celebrate his 70th birthday. An international workshop was also organized on the same occasion in his honour.

In 1967, Scozzafava began teaching at the University of Perugia. He taught there until 1969, when he left to join University of Florence as assistant professor of Mathematical Analysis. At this time, the focus of his research began shifting towards Algebra, and mainly towards Statistics and Probability.

Scozzafava graduated in Mathematics in 1961 at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was given a fellowship at Istituto Superiore Poste Telecomunicazioni and then one at CNEN (Comitato Nazionale Energia Nucleare) in 1962. For the next five years, he conducted research at CNEN and during this time, he wrote several articles on the application of Mathematics in Physics. In 1967, he received his academic teaching habilitation ("libera docenza") in Mathematical Methods in Physics, which was confirmed in 1973.

Romano Scozzafava (born November 12, 1935) is an Italian mathematician known for his contributions to subjective probability along the lines of Bruno de Finetti, based on the concept of coherence. He taught Probability Calculus at the Engineering Faculty of the Sapienza University of Rome from 1979 to his retirement (at the end of 2009).