Luca La Rocca has been an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia since 7 Dec. 2016 for the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics. Formerly, at the same university, he was first a Research Fellow in Statistics for the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences, from 1 Nov. 2003 to 31 Oct. 2005, then an Assistant Professor of Statistics, from 1 Dec. 2005 to 6 Dec. 2016, initially for the Faculty of Economics and Communication Sciences, later for his current department. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and received a doctoral degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Pavia (Department of Mathematics). His research activity has developed in different areas of statistics, with a special interest for Bayesian methods and graphical models. He was visiting researcher at several foreign universities (University of Aalborg, DK, University of Warwick, UK, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, FR, University of Florida, US, University of Southampton, UK, University of Granada, ES). Besides authoring a number of scientific papers, he has published three software libraries (BayHaz, giRaph, FBFsearch) in the main R Project archive (CRAN). His teaching experience includes classes and laboratories at the undergraduate level (basic statistics and probability) at the master level (inference and data analysis) and at the graduate level (Bayesian statistics). He also has experience in outreach activities for school teachers and students.