Tom completed his PhD in Experimental Psychology at University College London, following an MRes in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Birmingham, and a BSc in Psychology at Cardiff University. His PhD thesis examined the persistence and plasticity of knowledge stored in the human memory system, and involved an…
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Christina Bergmann
Christina is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, where she moved in 2017 after completing a postdoc at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in Paris, France. She obtained a Phd in 2014 from Radboud University Nijmegen. Christina studies how early first language acquisition is shaped…
Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas
Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Agricultural and Resource Economics program at UC Davis. His research focuses on understanding how households adopt new technologies to better manage risk and income fluctuations. His work leverages traditional household surveys and big data methods. Before joining the program, Oscar worked at the World…
Neeta Goel
Dr. Neeta Goel is a Senior Program Officer for Measurement, Learning and Evaluation at the Gates Foundation. Neeta has over seventeen years of experience in the international development sector. Her work has included the design, implementation, and evaluation of NGO interventions focusing on disadvantaged children, youth, and communities. Neeta is interested in…
Tim Dennis
Tim is the Director of the Social Science Data Archive at the UCLA Library where he provides data services, including instruction, consulting, and community building. He is a Software and Data Carpentry Instructor and Instructor Trainer and is a leader in the more recent Library Carpentry movement. Contact
Johannes Haushofer
Johannes Haushofer is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. His research interests lie at the intersection of neurobiology, behavioral economics, and development economics. His research asks whether poverty has particular psychological and neurobiological consequences, and whether these consequences,…
Melissa Sharp
Melissa is a doctoral research fellow at Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité and The University of Split as a part of the Methods in Research on Research (MiRoR) Project. Her PhD, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, focuses on reporting guidelines for observational studies (STROBE) and aims to increase the…
Brett J. Gall
Brett J. Gall is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Duke University and a researcher in the DevLab@Duke. His research uses quantitative methods to answer questions at the intersection of political economy and political behavior, specifically on the topics of taxation and redistribution, economic and political inequality, and preference and belief formation.
Hopin Lee
Hopin is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine – University of Oxford, and the School of Medicine and Public Health – University of Newcastle. Hopin’s research primarily focuses on studying the underlying causal mechanisms of complex interventions. He is using this method to identify efficient ways of implementing…
Robbie van Aert
Robbie van Aert obtained his Research Master’s degree with as specialization methodology and statistics, and is currently a PhD candidate at the department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University. His PhD, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), is about correcting for publication bias in meta-analyses. Other research interests…
Fiona Burlig
Fiona Burlig is an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She studies energy and environmental economics, with a focus on the developing world. Her recent research examines the impacts of rural electrification in India, uses machine learning…
Dan Benjamin
Dan Benjamin is Associate Professor of Economics at the Center for Economic and Social Research and Economics Department at the University of Southern California. He is a behavioral economist who studies social-science genomics, subjective well-being, and belief biases. He has advocated improvements in statistical practice in the social sciences based on better…
Dagim Belay
Dagim Belay is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In fall 2016, he was an East Africa Social Sciences Translation Collaborative (EASST) Fellow with the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley. Dagim holds a PhD in Economics from University of Copenhagen. His main areas of interest focus on applying impact…
Amy Riegelman
Amy Riegelman is a librarian at the University of Minnesota with liaison responsibilities the following departments: Psychology, Educational Psychology, Child Development, and Speech-Language-Hearing-Sciences. At the University of Minnesota, she co-chairs a Systematic Review Service team. She attended the Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training at Berkeley (RT2) in Summer 2017 and is particularly interested in…
Hailemariam Ayalew
Hailemariam Ayalew obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark in 2016 with a thesis entitled “Impact Evaluation of policy reforms: Quasi experimental evidence from Africa.” He also obtained MSc degrees in Economic Policy Analysis from Addis Ababa University and the University of Copenhagen. Previously, he worked as a…
John Borghi
John Borghi is a postdoctoral fellow at California Digital Library, where he works with the University of California Curation Center (UC3). A cognitive neuroscientist by training, John has been working in academic libraries since 2013. His current interests include studying how researchers use, share, and value their data and code, creating tools…
Caroline Brandt
Caroline Brandt is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on international relations and methodology. She is interested in experimental and survey research to study civil conflict dynamics and the institutional design of peace agreements. Contact
Sebastian Karcher
Sebastian Karcher is the Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University. His main research interests are in qualitative data management and the integration of data tools into scholarly workflows to foster transparent research practices. He is an active contributor to several scholarly open source projects, including Zotero and the…
Nam Pho
Nam is a data scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School studying the interactions between the genome and our environment in Chirag Patel’s lab. Nam is a graduate of the 2017 RT2 workshop held in Berkeley, CA and now functions as a resource at his institutions on best…
Aidan Cashin
Aidan Cashin is a PhD Candidate at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). His research involves investigating the mechanisms of treatments for chronic low back pain. In particular, using mediation analysis to better understand how treatments work or why they fail. Through his research in mechanism evaluations, Aidan became interested in issues pertaining to…
Graham MacDonald
Graham MacDonald is a data scientist and the senior manager for data technology and innovation at the Urban Institute, where he works with researchers to improve access to data, analytics tools, and innovative research methods. MacDonald uses and advises on such tools as machine learning, natural language processing, web scraping, big data…
Mercyline Kamande
Mercyline W. Kamande holds a PhD in Economics with concentrations in Public Sector Economics and Econometrics. She is a Senior Lecturer in Mount Kenya University, Rwanda. She is also the Founder, Executive Director, and Lead Consultant at Impact Evaluation Research for Development. She has wide experience in impact evaluation research, mainly on…
Charles Crabtree
Charles Crabtree is a graduate student (expected 2018) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on various aspects of repression and discrimination in comparative, American, and international politics. He has published articles in a wide variety of journals, including the British Journal of Political Science,…
Jose M. Magallanes
Jose Manuel Magallanes is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP), Visiting Associate Professor at the Evans School of Public Policy at the University of Washington, and a Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington eScience Institute. Professor Magallanes is an…
George Ofosu
George Ofosu is a Pre-doctoral Fellow at the CDDRL at Stanford and a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. George specializes in Comparative Politics and Political Methodology (Experimental and Quantitative Methods). His research focuses on electoral fraud, the effects of domestic election monitoring, electoral accountability, research design, and the political economy of development…
Daniel Posner
Dan Posner is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. His research and teaching focuses on ethnic politics, research design, and the political economy of development in Africa. He is the co-organizer of the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE). His research focuses on ethnic politics, research design,…
George Avelino
Professor Avelino is dedicated to comparatively researching the political aspects of public policies in general, and of social policies in particular. Recently, through the application of qualitative and quantitative methods, he has been concerned with distinguishing the effects of different institutional arrangements on public policies in several Latin American countries. He has authored…
Ben Marwick
Ben Marwick is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Anthropology Department and a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Wollongong Centre for Archaeological Science. A graduate of the University of Western Australia and The Australian National University, Ben’s main research activities combine models from evolutionary ecology with analyses of archaeological evidence to investigate…
Rodrigo Lins
Rodrigo Lins is a political science PhD candidate at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Concerned with transparency and reproducibility in the social sciences, he attended the 2016 BITSS Summer Insitute. He currently studies democratization, democratic consolidation, and quantitative methods in political science. The data used in Brazilian empirical social science research is still…
Thomas Leeper
Dr. Thomas J. Leeper is an Associate Professor in Political Behavior in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. His research on American and European public opinion uses survey and experimental methods to understand how citizens’ political viewpoints reflect an interaction between the broader information environment –including the mass media and political elites – and individual-level attributes – namely citizens’ expressed…
Harrison Dekker
Harrison Dekker is an Associate Professor and Data Services Librarian at the University of Rhode Island where he is developing curriculum to teach reproducible research practices and exploring other ways in which academic librarians and data professionals can play a role in promoting and supporting research transparency and reproducibility. Prior to URI,…
Jayne Tusiime
Jayne Tusiime is an Epidemiologist with a Pharmaceutical background and over fourteen years of experience in Research and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) in the sectors of HIV/AIDS; Tuberculosis; and Maternal, New Born, and Child Health. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2010 and has worked with several research organizations. She currently serves as…
David Klinowski
David Klinowski is a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Santiago Centre for Experimental Social Sciences of the University of Oxford and the University of Santiago de Chile. His research examines prosocial behavior and gender issues. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. David believes transparent and reproducible practices…
Jelte Wicherts
Jelte Wicherts received both his Master’s degree (2002, cum laude) and PhD degree (2007, cum laude) from the Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on a wide range of topics related to reproducibility, replication, individual differences, statistics, and measurement. His research interests include group differences in IQ,…
Lorena Barba
Leader in Education Lorena A. Barba has a Ph.D. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and BSc/PEng degrees in mechanical engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. She is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Prof. Barba has previously lived…
Adam Altmejd
Adam Altmejd is a fourth-year PhD Student at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, working mainly with behavioral/experimental economics and game theory. Currently, he is visiting the Department of Economics at Harvard University, invited by Professor David Laibson. Together with a group of researchers, he works on the…
Richard Ball
Richard Ball is an Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College. His interest in research transparency grew out of his experience advising undergraduate research projects, including papers written for introductory statistics classes as well as senior theses in economics. In 2013, with colleague Norm Medeiros, he launched Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in…
Don Moore
Don Moore is a Professor of Management of Organizations at the Haas School of Business. His research focuses on human overconfidence in decision-making, negotiation, and ethical choice. He has been active in the research transparency community, promoting the use of pre-analysis plans and study registries in psychology and widely practicing and advocating…
Richie Lenne
Richie Lenne is a PhD student in social psychology at University of Minnesota. His research focuses on processes of behavior change—how people make and sustain desired changes. Behaviors such as eating and physical activity underlie the chronic diseases that strain our nation’s medical system and economy. As such, interventions that address preventative…
Dennis M. Gorman
Dennis M. Gorman is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, Texas A&M University. He was trained in medical sociology in Great Britain, and received his PhD from the University of Essex in 1988. He became interested in issues pertaining to research integrity when…
Ifeoluwapo Amao
Ifeoluwapo Amao works in the Research Outreach department of the National Horticultural Research Institute in Ibadan, Nigeria where she is involved in marketing and consumption studies, as well as outreach activities to horticultural stakeholders. In December 2014, she obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Agricultural Economics University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She attended a Humboldt…
E.J. Wagenmakers
Leader in Education Professor Dr. Eric-Jan Wagenmakers is a mathematical psychologist and a dedicated Bayesian. He works for the Psychological Methods unit at the University of Amsterdam and he is PI on the European Research Council grant “Bayes or Bust: Sensible Hypothesis Tests for Social Scientist”, a grant that recently spawned the…
Zacharie Dimbuene
Leader in Education Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene is a Researcher in Population Studies. He taught Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry at a High School level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He also taught Sampling Design, Demographic Analysis Techniques, Mathematics and Probability at the Department of Demography, University of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of…
Beth Baribault
Emerging Researcher Beth is a fourth-year PhD student in the Cognitive Sciences department at UC Irvine. Her research focuses on the development of new computational tools for analyzing behavioral (and sometimes neural) data in a Bayesian framework. She has developed novel cognitive models to address a variety of topics, including the comparative…
Graeme Blair
Emerging Researcher Graeme Blair is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCLA. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University with Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University. Graeme studies comparative politics with a focus on West Africa as well as…
Abel Brodeur
Emerging Researcher Abel Brodeur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Paris School of Economics. Brodeur’s current research interests center around health economics, development economics and research transparency. His current projects include an evaluation of the economic consequences of…
Sacha Epskamp
Emerging Researcher During his four year PhD project, Sacha Epskamp worked on integrating network modeling techniques in the field of psychometrics, with applications in clinical, social and developmental psychology. In addition to theoretical work he has developed several software package to facilitate the use of their methods for empirical researchers. He recently…
Michèle Nuijten
Emerging Researcher Michèle Nuijten obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam in 2011 and 2012, respectively. After that, she started her PhD project titled “Human Factors in Statistics” at Tilburg University, where she is part of the Meta-Research Center. Her research focuses on meta-science, including…
Felix Schönbrodt
2016 Recipient of a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science: Emerging Researchers Category Felix Schönbrodt obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Humboldt-University Berlin and currently works at the Department Psychology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. His research interests include implicit and explicit motives, quantitative methods, research synthesis, data visualization, and issues…
Elaine Toomey
2016 Recipient of a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science: Emerging Researchers Category Elaine is a Health Research Board Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) post-doctoral research fellow based in the Health Behavior Change Research Group at the National University of Ireland Galway. She is currently involved in the development of a complex intervention…