The gentleman copulist

Carlo Sempi is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the Università degli Studi del Salento in Lecce, Italy. He studied mathematics at the Università degli Studi di Pavia (Laurea in Fisica, 1970) and at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), where he completed his PhD in October 1974. He then joined his current institution as professore incaricato and became professore straordinario in 2000. He was an early contributor to the theory of copulas andhas remained active to this day. He is the author or coauthor of over 125 research articles on various aspects of analysis, probabilistic metric spaces, copulas, and many related notions such as semi-copulas, quasi-copulas, anddiscrete copulas.Withhis formerPhDstudent FabrizioDurante, he also coauthored the book “Principles of Copula Theory” published by Chapman & Hall in 2015. A cosmopolitan and polyglot, he served the dependence modeling community in various ways, notably through the organization of the 2009 meeting marking the 50th anniversary of Abe Sklar’s seminal paper.