Nate Breznau

Researcher at the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Center of Lifelong Learning. Principal Investigator of the research project, “The Reciprocal Relationship of Public Opinion and Social Policy“. Principal Investigator of “The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative” and “The Role of Theory in Resolving the Reproducibility Crisis“. Open Science advocate. Open Science Fellow…

Johannes Karreth

Johannes Karreth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He studies the impact of international organizations and processes on politics, focusing mainly on how disputes evolve in different international institutional environments. His recent work investigates when international organizations can use their…

Laura Fortunato

Dr. Laura Fortunato is an evolutionary anthropologist with training in both anthropology and biology. Her research aims to understand the evolution of human social and cultural behaviour, working at the interface between the two fields. Laura is based at the University of Oxford, as Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Tutorial Fellow…

Karen Matvienko-Sikar

Karen Matvienko-Sikar is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland where she also completed her PhD in Applied Psychology. Her PhD thesis focused on interventions to improve psychological and physical well-being outcomes during pregnancy. As part of this research, she developed a number of key…

Greer Gosnell

Greer Gosnell is a Research Officer in the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. Her research uses field experiments to understand individual decisionmaking related to transport and energy use decisions. Her current projects focus on the contexts of commercial fuel efficiency, residential energy and resource use, individual transport decisions,…

Alassane Koulibaly

Alassane Koulibaly is working for Innovations for Poverty Action – Francophone West Africa (IPA-FWA) since July 2014. he has been involved in research studies both in Burkina Faso and Mali. Since February he has been supervising several projects as a research coordinator. Alassane’s areas of work include rural finance, governance, health, agriculture,…

Paulo de Lima Oliveira

Paulo is a lawyer and a PhD student in Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), and has a Master’s degree in Law and Economics an undergraduate degree in Political Science. He co-founded the UFPE research group ‘Laboratory of Research in Institutional Designs’ and is a member of the group ‘Research…

W. Kyle Hamilton

Kyle is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Merced in the Psychological Sciences graduate program. He is advised by Dr. Linda Cameron and is part of the health psychology group. Kyle received his Associate of Arts in Social Science from Reedley College and his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with…

Heba Abou-El-Sood

Dr. Heba Abou-El-Sood is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at Cairo University Faculty of Commerce. Prior to that, she was affiliated with Lancaster University Management School. She holds an MPhil in Accounting with distinction from Cairo University, MSc in Accounting and Finance from Boston College, and PhD in Accounting and…

Jeffrey Naecker

Jeff Naecker is an economist at Google. His research is primarily in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics. He studies the motivations behind prosocial behavior, the usefulness of hypothetical and subjective data in predicting incentivized choice, and how machine learning can add new insights to behavioral models of preferences. A native…

Yannick Mbunang

Yannick Ngongang Mbunang is a Pre-doctoral fellow in African School of Economics (ASE)/ Institute of Empirical Research in Political Economics (IERPE), Benin. His interests are applied econometrics, impact evaluation and data science. Yannick has an MSc in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics from ASE and a BSc in Pure Mathematics from University Yaoundé…

Shane McCarty

Shane McCarty is the Executive Director and Research Scientist at Promote Care & Prevent Harm, a non-profit working on the prevention of violence at schools across the United States. Shane completed his bachelors in Marketing, masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and doctorate in Developmental Psychology at Virginia Tech. His research explores the development…

Kennedy Mwangi

Kennedy is an Assistant Lecturer at Egerton University and an Associate Researcher with the University of Nairobi’s African Women’s Studies Centre. He lectures on Gender and the Law, and Human Rights and Ethics at the Bachelors level, as well as Gender, Communication, Law and Human Rights at the Diploma level at Egerton…

Kacana Sipangule

Kacana Sipangule is a Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Goettingen in Germany. She is also a Research Economist at the Poverty Reduction Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet). Her research interests include development, experimental, and agricultural economics. She…

Aleksandr Michuda

Aleksandr Michuda is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis in California, USA. His research focuses on land reform, land privatization policies and their political economy, relying on modern modeling techniques and structural estimation. His passions go from political philosophy and symbolic logic.   Contact

Julia Clark

Julia Clark is a PhD candidate in comparative political science and methodology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where her research focuses on legacies of authoritarianism in local politics and development in Tunisia. Over the past two years, she has been actively involved with the work of UCSD’s Policy Design and Evaluation…

Solomon Olakojo

Dr. Solomon Abayomi Olakojo is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He obtained his PhD in Economics under the collaborative PhD programme of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) from University of Ibadan. He is an alum of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) of…

Sho Tsuji

Sho Tsuji is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. She studies the role of social cues, specifically interactivity, on infant word learning. Using techniques like gaze-contingent eye-tracking, she tries to disentangle the influence of social cues from the presence of a human interaction partner during learning. During her PhD, Sho…

Jon Grahe

Jon Grahe is Professor of Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Toledo. He is currently Past-President of Psi Chi, the Managing Executive Editor of The Journal of Social Psychology, a Center for Open Science Ambassador for both Open Science Badges and Open Science Framework training, and…

Ann-Marie Creaven

Ann-Marie Creaven is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick (UL), in Ireland. She completed her bachelors and doctorate in psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she also completed a diploma in Gaeilge (Irish language). Broadly, her research examines how social relationships…

Ingvild L. Skarpeid

Ingvild is a PhD student at the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR) at The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). She is also a part of The Choice Lab at NHH. Her research is experimental, both lab and field based, and lies in the intersection of behavioural and…

Emmanuel Orkoh

Emmanuel Orkoh graduated in 2019 with a PhD in Economics from the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He is currently working as a Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden and as an Extraordinary Research Scientist at the North-West University in South Africa. He holds a collaborative…

Iyabo Adeoye

Iyabo Adeoye holds a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and is currently the Acting Head of Department, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Department of National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria. She specializes in market intelligence and analysis, and value chain development of horticultural crops. Gender dimensions and…

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Idrissa Ouedraogo is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in Development Economics at Thomas Sankara University based in Saaba (Burkina Faso). His research interests include governance and institutional economics, human development, welfare economics, and African economic integration. He has been a BITSS catalyst since 2017. His goals as a Catalyst are to sensitize…

Tafadzwa Maramura

Tafadzwa Clementine Maramura is a double valedictorian who holds a B.Soc Sci (Cum Laude), Honours Public Policy (Cum Laude) and a Master of Public Policy (Governance) from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Management and Governance (Water Governance) at the North-West University…

Ada Gonzalez-Torres

Ada Gonzalez-Torres is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her main research fields are in development economics and political economy. In her dissertation she studies drivers of civil violence, its consequences for main economic outcomes and interactions between institutions, beliefs and social norms, using quasi-experimental…

Daniel Lakens

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Leader in Education Daniel Lakens is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) whose work focuses on reward structures in science and applied statistics. His main lines of empirical research focus on conceptual thought and meaning. Dr. Lakens…

Simine Vazire

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Leader in Education Simine Vazire is the Director of the Personality and Self-Knowledge Laboratory at UC Davis. She teaches courses on research methods, replicability, personality, and self-knowledge. She also conducts meta-science examining how people interpret scientific findings and tracks trends in the methods and results of published…

Erica Baranski

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Erica is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Social-Personality department at the University of California, Riverside. Her current research focus on the cross-cultural examination of situational experience, as well as the volitional personality change process. Her dissertation work investigates individual and cultural differences in…

Charles R. Ebersole

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Charles R. Ebersole received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Miami University (OH) in 2012. He is now a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Virginia. He primarily studies research practices and meta-science, conducting crowdsourced investigations of factors that influence the replicability…

Ranjit Lall

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Ranjit Lall is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests are in the area of international political economy, with a focus on international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, and quantitative methods. He graduated from the University of Oxford…

Joshua Polanin

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Dr. Joshua R. Polanin is a Principal Researcher at American Institutes of Research. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2013 with a Ph.D. in Research Methodology with a focus in Quantitative Methodology. Dr. Polanin completed an Institute of Education Science’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vanderbilt…

Karthik Ram

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Dr. Karthik Ram is a senior data scientist at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) and a co-founder of the rOpenSci project, which develops R packages that facilitate access to data repositories. He is also a senior Principle Investigator at the Berkeley Initiative for…

Elise Wang Sonne

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Soazic Elise Wang Sonne is a statistician and economist researcher (PhD fellow) at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) and an Economist (Young Professional) at the Social Development Unit of the World Bank Group in Washington DC. Since early 2015, Soazic has been spearheading the research…

Maarten Voors

Maarten Voors (PhD Wageningen, 2011) is an Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Wageningen University. His main field is development and experimental economics. His research focuses on institutions, social capital, (post-conflict) development and behavior. He uses a variety of methods including surveys, lab and field experiments and econometric analysis. He has conducted…

Tanu Kumar

Tanu Kumar is a doctoral candidate in the department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Alongside research methodologies and transparency, her interests include using experimental methods to understand political and economic change in cities in the developing world, particularly in India. Her dissertation project evaluates the impact of low-income housing programs on…

Temitope Laniran

Temitope Laniran earned a BSc in Economics from Bowen University Iwo and a MSc in Economics & Finance for Development from the Bradford Centre for International Development (BCID), University of Bradford. He was awarded an Erasmus grant of the European Union lifelong learning programme to study Human Development and Food Security at the…

Vedaste Ndizera

Dr. Vedaste Ndizera is a Lecturer at the University of Rwanda, Department of Political Science and International Relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Governance and Regional Integration, an MBA/Global Business, an MA in Tourism Management and a BA in English with concentration on Translation and Interpreting. Dr. Vedaste Ndizera speaks French and…

Alexandra Paxton

Alexandra Paxton is a postdoctoral scholar working with Tom Griffiths in the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and a Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, both at the University of California, Berkeley. In August 2018, she will join the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University…

Tom Hardwicke

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…

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…