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Ingrid Picasso Cerdà

Ingrid is a Social Anthropologist and has a Masters in International Development Cooperation. She has collaborated on research projects from diverse topics such as rural development, international migration, indigenous bilingual intercultural education, peace-building and popular economy; all of which articulate her personal interest in development studies. Since 2015, she has been working…

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.