Mariaclelia Stefania Di Serio

Mariaclelia Stefania Di Serio is a Full Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Università Vita - Salute San Raffaele. She has held roles including Director of the University Centre for Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences (CUSSB) since 2005 and Associate Professor at the same institution from 2005–2015. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Lugano (USI) since 2007. She has held international roles such as leading the Statistics Unit at the Multiple Sclerosis International Foundation (MSIF) in Munich (2001–2004) and postdoctoral research positions at Duke University, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins University (1996–2000).

Her research focuses on statistical models for complex diseases, including Bayesian networks, longitudinal studies in virology/oncology, and biomarker analysis. She also investigates paradoxes in biomedical probability and multivariate survival models. Collaborations span institutions like the SFI (Oslo), MRC Cambridge, and Walter and Helen Hall Medical Centre (Australia).

Dr. Di Serio holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of North Carolina (USA) and University of Trento (1992–1996). Her leadership includes presidency of the Italian Biometric Society (2016–2020). She directs the CUSSB, fostering statistical innovation in biomedical research.