Biostatistics
Ester Luconi has an academic background that begins in Natural Sciences and leads to a PhD in Public Health Sciences, weaving together epidemiology, data analysis and a strong interest in environment–health interactions. In the lab, she contributes to projects ranging from historical epidemiology to exposome research, clinical studies and advanced statistical analyses.
Her current challenge is a particularly ambitious one: making sense of the data collected by the environmental monitoring stations scattered across the territory of Legnano — a task that requires method, patience, and a remarkable ability to tame sensors that, as she notes in her work, tend to be just as “creative” as certain datasets no one admits to having generated. Through robust regression, bootstrap approaches, calibration work and comparative analyses, she is helping make the entire PM2.5 monitoring network more reliable and scientifically sound.
Alongside the rigorous researcher, there is a side of Ester that makes her presence immediately recognizable: she is a devoted animal lover, a collector of small handcrafted items, and an enthusiast of the illustrations she carefully selects and hangs around her desk. She often wears jewelry she crafts herself — colorful, playful, unapologetically unconventional pieces capable of brightening even the dullest day. It is not unusual to see her walk in wearing a princess tiara, carried with a natural ease that very few could pull off.