Over the years, I have taught a range of subjects within Quantitative Finance. At the University of Florence, I currently teach the undergraduate module Quantitative Risk Assessment Tools, the master’s course Portfolio Choice and Bond Markets, and a PhD short course in Default Risk Modelling, delivered as part of the National PhD Programme in Scientific, Technological and Social Methods Enabling Circular Economy at the University of Padua.

Previously, I contributed lectures to the Insurance and Risk Models module and the Workshop in Probability for Economics and Finance at the University of Florence. As a visiting lecturer, I also taught Derivatives, Trading and Hedging (undergraduate) and Corporate Risk Management (master’s) at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London.

In addition, I have served as a teaching assistant for several courses, including Financial Engineering, Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Modelling Methods in Finance, and Derivatives and Risk Management (Bayes Business School); Data and Time Series Analytics, Data Analytics for Finance, and Decisions and Risk Analysis (London Business School); Mathematical Methods for Economics (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa); and Mathematics, Financial Mathematics for Business, and Introduction to Programming in MATLAB (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).

Teaching Materials

Quantitive Risk Assessment Tools

(Undergraduate)

Introduction
Combinatorics
Sample Space and Events
Probability
Probability Models
Probability and Combinatorics
Conditional Probability
Bayes Theorem
Markov Chains
Random Variables
Markov Chains
Expectation
Central Tendency and Dispersion
Normal Distribution
Compounding Laws and Equivalent Rates
Annuities, Leasing and APR
Loans and Treasury Bonds

Portfolio Choice and Bond Markets

(Master)

Review of Linear Algebra
Utility Theory
Investor Choice Problem and SDF
Pricing in Complete and Incomplete Markets
Replication, LOP and Arbitrage
Mean Variance Theory
Pitfalls of Mean Variance
Black-Litterman Model
CAPM, Factor Models, APT
Factor Identification
Factor Investing
Performance Attribution
Factors in Fixed Income and PCA
Interest Rates Modelling
Introduction to Credit Risk

I also train high school teachers on more effective approaches to teaching financial mathematics (these slides are in Italian).

Default Risk Modelling

(PhD)

Essential of option pricing (discrete-time)
Essential of option pricing (continuous-time)
Merton model
Black-Cox model
Leland model
Reduced-form models
Score-driven and logistic regression models
Credit and climate risk