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Isaac Handley-Miner

Isaac J. Handley-Miner is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Boston College, where he explores how people conceptualize truth, assess the credibility of information sources, and determine which information to trust. With a strong commitment to open science, he is particularly interested in using metascientific approaches to evaluate research…

Anne-Katherin Kleine

Anne-Kathrin Kleine is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Principal Investigator specializing in human-AI interaction in healthcare at LMU Munich. As a data analyst and social scientist, her research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, exploring both the potential and challenges of these technologies. In addition to her…

Harrison Hansford

Harrison is an NHMRC Postgraduate Scholar completing his PhD at the School of Health Sciences at University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). Harrison’s current research focuses on understanding whether, and for whom interventions for musculoskeletal conditions are safe and effective using ‘big-data,’ which allows us to answer…

Peter Baguma

Prof. Baguma holds a PhD in Psychology and 18 certificates and has taught at Makerere University for 38 years. His fields include Health Psychology, Psychosocial intervention and Organizational Psychology. Has taught undergraduates and postgraduate courses to students in Psychology and rendered services in different units and done a lot of research and…

Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter

Pablo Ezequiel is a researcher trained in behavioural-psychological sciences. His interests are mainly related to the areas of Neurosciences, Research Ethics and Methodology. In recent years he has focused on researching responsible practices in research and the ethics of transparency; as well as promoting open science practices. Contact

Mariana V. Ramirez Bustamante

Mariana Ramírez Bustamante is a six-year Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, where she is also a graduate researcher affiliated with the LAPOP Lab. Her research includes studies of organized crime, voting behavior, representation, and public opinion. For her dissertation on the effect of…

Guanghong Xu

Guanghong is an Economics Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). His research focuses on the economic development of lower-income countries and how technology can help with global poverty reduction. He has conducted fieldwork in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. He’s currently a visiting scientist at International…

Egor Bronnikov

Egor is a doctoral researcher and PhD Candidate in Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics at Harvard University, and an adjunct professor at the Free University of Moscow (Brīvā Universitāte). Inter alia, Egor is a member of Dissernet, an…

Thomas Brailey

Thomas is an MPhil student in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford. From 2020 to 2022, he served as a pre-doctoral fellow with J-PAL’s Payments and Governance Research Program. During this time he received a BITSS Catalyst grant to facilitate his team’s implementation of reproducible research tools. He received a Bachelor…

Bishal Chalise

Bishal is a second-year Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics at Deakin University, Australia and a lecturer at Tribhuvan University, Nepal (on leave). He conducts applied economic research at the intersection of development, environment, and political economy. As a BITSS Catalyst, he received a grant in 2022 to organize various training…

Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri

Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Affiliated Professors at the Center for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence (CINFONIA) at the University de Los Andes. Before joining Los Andes, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in data science in applied microeconomics at the National Center for…

Shaon Lahiri

Shaon Lahiri is a social and behavioral scientist within the field of public health. He studies psychosocial processes across a number of behaviors that impact health, such as modern contraceptive use, intimate partner violence, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis use, and tobacco use. His expertise is in the measurement, operationalization, and analysis of social normative…

Larissa Da Silva

Larissa Da Silva is currently a PhD student in Brazil. Her field is in physical activity and exercise training, but she is also interested and want to be more engaged in open science and reproducible practices. Larissa’s current project is about home based exercise training and people undergoing breast and prostate cancer…

Mariano Mosquera

Mariano Mosquera is a Doctor in Political Science from National University of Cordoba and Director of the Transparency Lab at Catholic University of Cordoba in Argentina. He was a Fellow at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and he was a professor and researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in…

Matheus Ferreira

Matheus Ferreira is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Political Behavior Studies. His current research examines the evangelical vote for Bolsonaro in the 2018 Brazilian elections. He is interested in the areas of political behavior, public…

Alexandra Jabbour

Alexandra Jabbour is a PhD candidate in Political science at the University of Montreal. She does research at the intersection of political behavior, geography, and economy. Her dissertation explores the role of local factors on citizens’ assessments of the national economy. The central theme of her work is how the spatial context…

Hanqi Luo

Dr. Hanqi Luo is a Senior Biostatistician and Chair of the data management group for the Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) project at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. She received her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training in epidemiology/nutrition at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses…

Jae Yeon Kim

Jae Yeon Kim is an Assistant Research Scholar (postdoctoral fellow) at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He studies computational social science, racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, and public policy and organization. In Spring 2022, Jae will join the KDI School of Public Policy and Management as an Assistant…

Edel O’Hagan

Edel O’Hagan is a final year PhD candidate based in Sydney, Australia. She has a range of research and data management skills including qualitative and quantitative methods. She has a specific interest in understanding how health information is received by consumers. Edel’s current projects investigate what health information should we provide and…

Daniel Dunleavy

Daniel Dunleavy is a postdoctoral research fellow (Ph.D. in Social Work) at the Center for Translational Behavioral Science (CTBS) in the Florida State University College of Medicine. His focus is primarily on behavioral health care and public health policy. Beyond this, Daniel’s focus is on meta-research, open science, and data management. His…

Chris Noone

Chris Noone is a lecturer in psychology at the National University of Ireland Galway. His research focuses on the themes of health behaviour change and LGBT+ health. Both of these research themes are driven by questions around how individual and cultural differences produce different health outcomes and how interventions can be developed…

Flavio Azevedo

Flavio is a Fulbright fellow and a research associate at the Institute for Communication Science (IfKW) of Friedrich Schiller University, Germany. Recently, he was named as one of the 100 most influential early career Portuguese via the “Global Shapers“ initiative by the World Economic Forum. His scholarship on political psychology has been…

Miriam Golden

Miriam Golden is a scholar of comparative politics who teaches at the European University Institute. Her research spans the developed and less developed world and mixes methods, including field experiments, collection and analysis of novel observational data, and behavioral experiments. Her main theoretical interests include issues of political responsiveness and accountability. Contact

Ani Movsisyan

Ani completed her PhD at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, and is currently based at LMU Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Her previous research has looked into methods of critical appraisal and certainty of evidence rating in systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the field of public health.…

Getachew Kassa

Dr. Getachew Mullu Kassa completed his PhD in Public Health/ Reproductive Health Sciences from the PAN African University Life and Earth Science Institute, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also obtained his Master of Science in Reproductive and Maternal Health Nursing from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and his Bachelor of Science in Nursing…

Jordan Weiss

Jordan Weiss is a demographer who studies population health and inequality. A central theme of his work concerns the integration of theories across multiple disciplines with advances in statistical and computational science to inform research design and translate findings into actionable, policy-relevant information. Jordan’s primary interests in transparency and reproducibility lie at…

Raquel Guimaraes

Dr. Guimaraes is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Economics at Federal University of Paraná (Brazil). She is a Guest Researcher (by courtesy) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria) and in the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Human Capital (WiC, Austria). Raquel…

Anna Josephson

Dr. Anna Josephson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. She completed her PhD and MS in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and BS in Geology and Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Josephson’s research focuses on individuals in and households around…

Bilal Kirkici

Bilal is a Professor Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Language Education of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He mainly conducts researchs on the L1 and L2 processing of morphologically complex words. Contact

Jun Wong

Jun is a research assistant at NYU Stern. His research interests are primarily in climate change, development, and innovation. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from UC Berkeley. Contact

Jeffrey Michler

Jeff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. He earned his PhD in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University in 2015 and completed a postdoc at the University of Illinois in 2017. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Jeff was an Assistant…

Birhanu Adamie

Birhanu Adamie is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2016, he was a visiting scholar at Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Previously, he also worked as a…

Emma Dreher

Emma Dreher is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Research Associate with the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. Her research centers on health policy/economics and political behavior, leveraging survey and experimental data to study behavioral changes among ACA beneficiaries (and non-beneficiaries)…

Andrea Salas Ortiz

Andrea studied a B.A in Economics at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) and a master in Administration and Public Policy at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), in Mexico. Throughout her professional career, Andrea has worked in different areas: economic regulation; management and organizational theory; health…

Esra Ataman

Esra is currently a PhD student at Middle East Technical University, where she also works as a research and teaching assistant. her research focus falls within the field of experimental psycholinguistics. She collects accuracy, reaction time, and eye-movement data. She is interested in language acquisition, language processing (native or second), and reading…

Ahwaz Akhtar

Ahwaz is based out of Pakistan and is associated with Indus Health Network and Center for Economic Research in Pakistan. His work is mainly focused on improving public health and increasing private sector productivity in developing country contexts. More recently, he was involved with several COVID-related initiatives that were aimed at supporting…

Maike Dahrendorf

Maike is a research master student in psychological methods from the University of Amsterdam. In 2019, she co-founded SIOS, the Student Initiative for Open Science. SIOS organizes educational events such as public lectures and workshops for students to teach the values of transparent, open, and collaborative science from the ground up. By…

Eadaoin Slattery

Eadaoin Slattery is a PhD researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is interested in the measurement and enhancement of cognition, with a particular emphasis on sustained attention, working memory and their interrelations. Her PhD research (funded by the Irish Research Council) focuses on the development…

Hollen Reischer

Hollen Reischer is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological at the University at Buffalo. Her research uses mixed methods to investigate the psychological lives of mid- to late-life adults, particularly in the areas of narrative identity, ego integrity, and self-transcendence. She also has a line of research in bioethics,…

Yulia Shenderovich

Yulia completed her PhD at the Violence Research Centre, Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and is currently based at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher. Previously, she worked at RAND Europe, setting up and conducting evaluations of school-based programs, and at the University of Cambridge, looking at…