Marco Forti completed his Bachelor and Master studies in Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in Italy, where he also received his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2022. He also worked in several public and private institutions and research centers as SviMez, Agenas, CER, KPMG international, Deloitte, etc., leading theoretical and applied research in the fields of statistics, economics, policy evaluation, epidemiology, and data management. Professor Forti's main research interests are in dynamic factor models, time series clustering, and finite mixture models. In such areas, his work consists in covering every aspect, from the theoretical to the algorithmic/computational, up to any simulations and practical applications. At John Cabot Professor Forti's teaching activities include courses in Statistics 1 and 2.