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Denis O’Hora

Denis O’Hora is a lecturer in psychology at the National University of Ireland Galway. His research focuses on the dynamics of learning and decision making; that is, how people adapt to the situations they find themselves in. He is an experimental psychologist who uses tightly controlled environments to identify features of situations…

Alexander Wuttke

Alexander Wuttke is a political psychologist at the University of Mannheim. He examines individuals’ perceptions and evaluations of the political environment in which they are embedded, and how these orientations shape motivation for political engagement. In his dissertation, he synthesizes psychological theories to investigate the origins of political motivation. Alex‘s main motivation…

Laura Michaelson

Laura is a Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder Institute of Behavioral Science. She studies social and cognitive determinants of positive youth development, with particular interests in self-regulation, executive function, social trust, and delay of gratification in early childhood. Laura also works as a senior reviewer with Blueprints for Healthy…

Amanda Domingos

Amanda Domingos is a PhD Student in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), in Brazil. Her research focuses on public policy, political institutions, and intergovernmental relations. Her current projects focus on the analysis of the legislative particularism in the Brazilian National Congress. Domingos graduated with a BA in Political Science…

Daniel Umpierre

Daniel is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He was trained in Kinesiology (exercise sciences), obtained MSc (2007) and PhD degrees (2012) in Health Sciences (Cardiovascular Sciences). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Science…

Victoria Chonn Ching

Victoria is a PhD candidate in the Political Science and International Relations program at the University of Southern California. She was introduced to BITSS after attending the 2018 training session in Los Angeles. She uses mixed methods to analyze and better understand economic trends and decision-making in developing and emerging countries.

Julia Schulte-Cloos

Julia Schulte-Cloos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded research fellow at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich. Her main research interests are comparative politics, electoral behavior, and European party competition. She is a passionate user of RMarkdown and an open science advocate. She gives regularly workshops on the principles…

Stacy Shaw

Stacy is a fourth year graduate student in the psychology at UCLA where she uses experimental designs to better understand mathematical flexibility, problem solving, and creativity. She served as faculty at BITSS’s 2018 Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Los Angeles, leading a hands-on session on ore-registration using the OSF.

Olivier Simard-Casanova

Olivier is a PhD student working with (and on) agent-based models in economics. He is also the founder of Le Signal Économie, the largest Francophone website dedicated to explain economics to the general public (operated by Aléryon Science). Through Le Signal Économie and Aléryon Science, he also have several meta-research projects on…

Jana Freundt

Jana Freundt is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a member of the Behavioral Ethics Lab and the Penn Social Norms Group. Before coming to Philadelhia, she was a PhD student in Economics and research associate at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Jana’s primary research focus lies…

Bárbara Farias Mota

Bárbara Maria Farias Mota is a Sociologist and a Masters student in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. She co-founded The Political Macroscope, an open source interactive platform aiming to help the broader public to better understand the Brazilian elections data. She also founded the “Real Techno Politik,”…

David Reinstein

David Reinstein is an Economist based at the University of Exeter. His research considers other-regarding behavior, charitable giving, returns to education, applications of mechanism design, and psychology and economics. He uses a variety of methods including observational econometrics and statistics, lab and field experiments, and economic theory. He is active in projects…

Benjamin Daniels

Benjamin Daniels is a Research Fellow in the gui2de group at Georgetown University. His research focuses on the delivery of high-quality primary health care in developing contexts. His work has highlighted the importance of direct measurement of health care provider knowledge, effort, and practice. To that end, he has supported some the…

Steven Miller

Steven V. Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. His research and teaching interests focus on international conflict, democratic peace and conflict behavior, and political behavior. His current research agenda explores how external threats (e.g. terrorism and disputed territory) change individual-level political attitudes to favor…

Fiona O’ Donovan

Fiona O’ Donovan is completing a PhD in psychology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Her research is funded by the Irish Research Council and is in collaboration with the agri-technology company Devenish Nutrition. Broadly, her PhD is looking at how nutritional and genetic factors influence…

Sami Miaari

Sami Miaari is a Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies in Tel-Aviv University and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD and MA in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also received his BSc in Mathematics and Economics from…