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Laura Marciano
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Laura Marciano

Research Associate

Social and Behavioral Sciences

lmarciano@hsph.harvard.edu

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Laura Marciano is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Chan T.H. School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, and at Prof. Viswanath’s lab. She is the Principal Investigator of the HappyB project (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and of a new NIH R21 project (funded by the National Institute of Mental Health), both aiming to study the longitudinal link between smartphone use, social media, and positive well-being in young people, using cutting-edge methods like trace data, EMAs, screenshots, and a digital biomarker.

She obtained her PhD Switzerland studying digital media use, well-being, and personality. Her doctoral work received the prize for the best thesis in Social sciences from the Italian Embassy in Bern. She studied Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan (Italy), where she graduated with honors and honorable mention.

Dr. Marciano also promotes international science dissemination activities with the IBSA Foundation for Scientific Research.

Bibliography

The Protective Role of Social-Oriented Digital Media Use in Children’s and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Latent Growth Curve Model. European Journal of Health Communication, 4(1), Article 1

Marciano L., Albanese E., Viswanath K., & Camerini AL.

The Protective Role of Social-Oriented Digital Media Use in Children’s and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Latent Growth Curve Model. European Journal of Health Communication, 4(1), Article 1. 2023.