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Graduate of the Department of Statistics at Athens University of Economics and Business (2003).She received her M.Sc. in Biostatistics from the University of Athens (2006) and her Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Athens University of Economics and Business (2011). She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus (2011 – 2013) and as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2016 – 2018). Since July 2018, she serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics and Business.Her research interests are focused on statistical modeling and inference for time series, discrete data and biostatistics.Selected PublicationsX. Pedeli, A.C. Davison and K. Fokianos (2015). Likelihood estimation for the INAR(p) model by saddlepoint approximation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110: 1229 - 1238.X. Pedeli, K. Fokianos and M. Pourahmadi (2015). Two Cholesky-log-GARCH models for multivariate volatilities. Statistical Modelling, 15: 345–365.X. Pedeli and D. Karlis (2013). On composite likelihood estimation of a multivariate INAR(1) model. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 34: 206–220.X. Pedeli and D. Karlis (2011). A bivariate INAR(1) process with application. Statistical Modelling, 11: 325–349.