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Luca Persia

Luca Persia

Luca Persia

ZHAW School of Management and Law
Fachstelle für Asset Management
Gertrudstrasse 8
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 66 46
luca.persia@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Teaching

Professional development teaching

CAS Machine Learning for Advanced Portfolio and Risk Management

Experience

  • PhD Computational Science
    Università della Svizzera Italiana
    05 / 2025 - today
  • Stress Test Modelling
    European Central Banking
    10 / 2022 - 01 / 2024
  • Traineeship in Risk Management
    ICCREA Banking Group
    04 / 2022 - 10 / 2022

Education and Continuing education

Education

  • Master Degree / Quantitative Finance
    Milan Polytechnic University
    10 / 2021 - 10 / 2022
  • Master Degree / Finance
    University of Trento
    09 / 2019 - 01 / 2022
  • Bachelor Degree / Economics
    University Chieti-Pescara
    09 / 2015 - 07 / 2018

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0005-5988-4933

Awards

ASSIOM FOREX ORAZIO RUGGERI 2022 Degree Award
Assiom Forex Financial Markets Association
02 / 2023

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

Selected publications

Persia, L., Lazebnyj, E., Günster, A. M., Kozbur, D., & Decerle, J. (2025, June 26). Predicting burglaries : a machine learning approach for low-density crime areas. Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS), Zurich, Switzerland, 26-27 June 2025.

Publications

Oral conference contributions and abstracts, peer reviewed

Other publications

Losavio, L., Persia, L., Sathe, M., and Pasadakis, D. (2026). Fraud detection in cryptocurrency markets with spatio-temporal graph neural networks. In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science and AI (SDS), Zurich, Switzerland.