On November 17, 2022, Maria has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Attention dynamics on YouTube: conceptual models, temporal analysis of engagement metrics, fake views“, which she prepared under the advice of Paolo Frasca, Floriana Gargiulo (CNRS GEMASS) and Tommaso Venturini (CNRS & University of Geneva). Her interdisciplinary work has been supported by the CNRS MITI via the DOOM grant.