- Dr. Laura Marciano is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Research Focus
Dr. Marciano is the principal investigator of the HappyB project, which started in January 2022 and aims to study the link between digital media use and hedonic ad eudaimonic well-being in a cohort of about 1500 adolescents by using (intensive) longitudinal data. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Background
Dr. Marciano holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy). She completed her PhD in Health Communication from USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) in October 2021. During her doctoral studies, she investigated the link between digital media use, mental health, and personality in young people using different methodologies, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, experiments, EMAs, trace and longitudinal data.