Methods Center

Sofia Morelli

Research Scientist at the Methods Center

Office
Methods Center
Haußerstr. 11
72076 Tübingen

 

 

sofia.morellispam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de


Key Research Topics

  • Mediation analysis with latent variables
  • Causal modeling
  • G-estimation
  • Intensive longitudinal data
  • Deconfounding

Profile

2024
Research Scientist

Methods Center, University of Tübingen

2024
M.Sc. in Quantitative Data Science Methods

University of Tübingen

2020 – 2024
Working Student Positions in Software Development

Omikron Data Solutions and Sternad Software GmbH

2019 – 2020
Erasmus Semester

University Paris Sud (France)

2022
B.Sc. in Physics

(with a major in Computational Astrophysics)
University of Tübingen

Publications

  • Morelli, S., Faleh, R., & Brandt, H. (under review). RAPSEM: Identifying Latent Mediators Without Sequential Ignorability via a Rank-Preserving Structural Equation Model.
  • Faleh, R., Morelli, S., Andriamiarana, V., Roman, Z. J., Flückiger, C., & Brandt, H. (under review). Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Modeling: A Hands-On Tutorial for Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data. Article Github Repository
  • Morelli, S. & Effenberger, N. & Schmidt, L., & Ludwig, N. (2025). Climate data selection for multi-decadal wind power forecasts. Environmental Research Letters. 20. 10.1088/1748-9326/adc01f. Article

Conference presentations

  • “Handling Unmeasured Confounding in Mediation Analysis: A Bayesian Latent Variable Approach” on the 7th meeting of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik, DAGStat, Berlin, March 2025.
  • “Combining Factor Scores and G-estimation to Handle Unmeasured Confounding in Latent Mediation Analysis” at the 17th conference of the Fachgruppe Methoden und Evaluation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), FGME, Berlin, September 2025.