Education:
1996: Ph.D. in Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne
1994: Certificate of Applied Mathematics Teaching, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne
1992: Degree in Applied Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne

Research Interests:
Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics with applications in environmental and climate science;
Uncertainty quantification and visualization;
Wind power forecasting; Time series; Robustness;
Multivariate analysis and data mining; Skewed multivariate non-gaussian distributions
(skew-normal, skew-t, skew-elliptical).

Honors and Awards:
2011 ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture: Kansas State University
2010 Distinguished Achievement Award: from the Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association
2010 El-Shaarawi Award for Excellence: from the International Environmetrics Society
2010 Fellow: Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2008 Elected: to the International Statistical Institute
2007 Fellow: American Statistical Association

Publications:
Papers
Book: Genton, M. G. (2004), Skew-Elliptical Distributions and Their Applications: A Journey Beyond Normality
Edited Volume, Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 416 pp.
Reviews of the book:
By A. Azzalini, University of Padova
By P. Embrechts, ETHZ (for JASA)
By A. Sen, University of Michigan (for Technometrics)
By C. Small, University of Waterloo (for ISI Short Book Reviews)

Seminars and Working Groups:
Talks
Skew-Tea **NEW**
Program in Spatial Statistics (PSS) **NEW**

Teaching:
Classes
Students
Postdocs

Statistics Code:
Functional boxplots **NEW**
3D surface boxplot movie **NEW**

Miscellaneous:
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