Chiara Brombin

CURRENT POSITION Associate Professor in Statistics SECS-S/01, at the Faculty of Psychology (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University), and involved in CUSSB (University Centre for Statistics for the Biomedical Sciences) research activities. RESEARCH INTERESTS My research interests focus on both statistical applications and theoretical development of statistics and include linear and nonlinear models for repeated measures data, joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data, multivariate statistics, nonparametric and permutation tests, shape analysis. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES AND EDUCATION 2018-2021 Assistant Professor in Statistics SECS-S/01 (RTD-B) at the Faculty of Psychology (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University). 2016-2018 Assistant Professor in Statistics SECS-S/01 (RTD-A) at the Faculty of Psychology (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University). 2013-2016 FIRB Researcher and national coordinator of the FIRB 2012 project (RBFR12VHR7) “Interpreting emotions: a computational tool integrating facial expressions and biosignals based on shape analysis and bayesian networks”. Assistant Professor in Statistics SECS-S/01 (RTD-A) at the Faculty of Psychology (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University). 2010-2013 Research fellowship at CUSSB, University Centre for Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (supervised by Prof. Clelia Di Serio). Research project entitled: “Parametric and non-parametric modeling of multivariate longitudinal studies”. 2009-2010 Post-doc grant in “Multivariate permutation methods with applications in both biomedical and management field: theoretical development and statistical software applications”. The research project is supported by the University of Padova CPDA088513 (Project Coordinator: Prof. Luigi Salmaso). 2006-2009 PhD in Statistical Sciences, at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova. Thesis on “A nonparametric permutation approach to statistical shape analysis” (Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Salmaso). 2000-2005 Laurea Degree (four years) in Statistics, at the Faculty of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy. Thesis on “Multivariate analysis with paired observations and missing values”, advisors: Prof. Fortunato Pesarin and Prof. Giovanni A. Fava. Chiara Brombin Page 2 STUDY PERIOD ABROAD March-June 2008 Visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. Advisor: Prof. F. James Rohlf. April-June 2007 Visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Anthropology, EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network) Centre, Vienna, Austria. Advisor: Prof. Stanislav Katina. TEACHING EXPERIENCE May 2022 Teaching activities within the Master in Methods and Data Analysis In Biomedical Research (Medal In Biomedical Research) 2021/22, Universit`a degli Studi di MilanoBicocca. From 2021 to 2022 Teaching Assistant of Statistics (Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano). Since 2011 Teaching Assistant of Advanced statistics → Multidimensional data analysis (Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano). Since 2014 Teaching Assistant of Applied Statistics (Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano). Since 2017 Professor of the course of Statistical methods in social sciences → Advanced models for social and psychological sciences → Advanced modelling in psychology (Master in Cognitive Psychology in health communication, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano). From 2011 to 2019 Teaching Assistant of the module of Statistics (Master Degree in dentistry and dental implantology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano). 18-22 November 2019 Teaching @ Scuola SIB Gargnano 28◦ Corso Di Metodologia Statistica Per La Ricerca Biologica Di Base Ed Applicata, Gargnano del Garda (BS) CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS 10-15 July, 2022 Riga, Latvia IBC2022 (31st International Biometric Conferences) talk “Exploring the role of SNP-168 allelic variants on biomarkers of HIV progression within a latent class framework” 21-23 October 2021, Riccione, IT ICAR (13th Italian Conference on AIDS and Retroviruses) talk “SNP-168 of the protein kinase and CD4 or CD8 dynamics in HIV-1 patients” 21-25 Giugno 2021, Pisa, IT SIS 2021, Specialized session SIS-SIB su Challenges for observational studies in modern biomedicine (virtual conference) talk “Exploring patients’ profile from COVID-19 case series data: beyond standard statistical approaches” Chiara Brombin Page 3 7-10 July 2019, Naples, IT Networking International Biometric Society regions XII IBS-Italian Region conference talk “Modelling heterogeneity of EGFR trajectories in HIV-infected patients” and poster presentation “Characterizing emotional response induced by affective stimuli using facial expression data” 5-7 June 2019, Milano, IT ICAR (11th Italian Conference on AIDS and Retroviruses) talk “Uncovering EGFR profiles in HIV-infected patients: an alternative statistical approach” 11-15 June 2018, Salerno, IT ISNPS (4th Conference of the International Society of Nonparametric Statistics), talk “Identifying physiological correlates of emotional response in children: a nonparametric combination based approach in a multiple-baseline design” 1-3 September 2016, Stirling, Scotland UK CIBB 2016, 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, talk “Assessing The Impact Of An Emotion Recognition Task On Heart Rate Variability” 16-19 June 2015-Milano (Italy) JOINT MEETING of the International Biometric Society (IBS) Austro-Swiss and Italian Regions, talk “Parametric and nonparametric approaches for multimodal emotion recognition” 2-7 August 2014-Boston, MA Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), talk “Can Images Be Effective in Evoking Emotions? A Pilot Study Based on an Innovative Visual Stimuli Database” 19-23 August 2012-Bergen (Norvegia) ISCB-33, 33rd Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, presentation poster. 27-29 June 2011-Gargnano (Italy) VIII Congresso Nazionale SIB, talk “Evaluating treatment effect through nonparametric testing for stochastic ordering: an application to MS data” 31 May 2011-Milano (Italy) MOX- Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano Invited talk “How to study complex shapes when the sample size cannot be increased” 23-25 September 2010- Porto San Paolo (Italy) Greco Italian Meeting On Stastistics, talk “Evaluation of Growth Curves by means of NLME Models: An Example from Tumorigenic Potential Cancer Cells” 14-15 June 2010-Padova (Italy) SIS Satellite meeting, Statistics for Complex Problems: The Multivariate Permutation Approach and Related Topics, poster presentation “Evaluating Shape Changes using Biometric Morphing and Nonparametric Combination Methodology” Chiara Brombin Page 4 17-18 December 2009-Hannover (Germany) Workshop on Parametric and non-parametric simultaneous inference in complex designs, Institut f¨ur Biostatistik, Leibniz Universit¨at Hannover, invited talk “Biometric morphing: evaluation of shape configurations by nonparametric combination methodology”. 14-16 September 2009-Milano (Italy) S.Co.2009, Complex Data Modeling and Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods for Estimation and Prediction, talk titled “Finite-sample consistency of permutation tests in shape analysis”. 22-26 June 2009-Milano (Italy) ECS10, The 10th European Congress of ISS on Stereology and Image analysis, talk titled “Multivariate permutation shape analysis with application to aortic valve morphology”. AWARDS AND HONORS October 2021: Scholarship for the ICAR (Italian Conference on AIDS and Retroviruses) conference June 2019: Scholarship for the ICAR (Italian Conference on AIDS and Retroviruses) conference INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES Since 20 October 2015, member of the Erasmus+ Committee at the Faculty of Psychology (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University). Since 28 November 2017, Member of the Joint Committee (“Commissione paritetica”) for the Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology in Health Communication.