Lorenzo Cappello is an assistant professor in the Statistics group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and affiliated professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. He previously was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, mentored by Prof. Julia A. Palacios. He earned his PhD in Statistics in 2018 from the Department of Decision Sciences at the Bocconi University, under the supervision of Stephen G. Walker and Sonia Petrone.