Chiara Di Maria is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Business and Statistics at the University of Palermo. She obtained her PhD in Statistics from the University of Palermo in 2022. She was visiting scholar at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen in 2020 and at the Department of Psychology of the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2022. Her research interests concern mediation analysis, causal inference, longitudinal data and multilevel and structural equation models.