Ermanno Pitacco is full professor of Actuarial mathematics and Life insurance technique, in the University of Trieste, and academic director of the Master in Insurance and Risk Management at the MIB School of Management of Trieste.
He has been visiting professor in various universities (recently: University of New South Wales, Sydney; University of Louvain-La-Neuve; University of Liubljana).
Main fields of scientific interest are life and health insurance mathematics and techniques, pension mathematics, longevity risk, portfolio valuations.
He is author or coauthor of textbooks and papers in the fields of scientific interest. His papers have been published, among the others, on: Insurance Mathematics & Economics, ASTIN Bulletin, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Belgian Actuarial Bulletin, Journal of Actuarial Practice, Applied stochastic models in business and industry, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, Giornale dell'Istituto Italiano degli Attuari.