Hi @FBruzzesi,
Your problem probably comes from what is explained in this topic.
One simpler solution would be to use functools.partial:
import functools
var_ddof_2 = functools.partial(dd.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy.var, ddof=2)
df.groupby("a").agg(b_var = ("b", var_ddof_2), c_sum = ("c", "sum"))