Mirko Armillotta is a Research Associate at the Department of Econometrics and Data Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He had a Post-Doc position at the University of Cyprus and a visiting research period at Lancaster University. Mirko Armillotta received the PhD in Statistical Sciences from the University of Bologna and the Award for the Best PhD thesis in Statistics 2022 by the Italian Statistical Society. His main research interests include count time series, discrete-valued processes, econometrics, network time series, observation-driven models, and time series analysis.