People

Aaron Peikert

I love exploring science from first principles, tracing its impact all the way to the everyday decisions researchers make. I dabble in statistics, computer science, and philosophy of science.

I dabble in advanced Bayesian modelling, analysis blinding and the many-analysts approach. I joined the Theory Methods Society since I am particularly interested in researching how the many-analysts approach can help researchers improve theory development.

Andreas Brandmaier

Professor for Research Methodology (Psychology); Computer & Data Scientist; Tool Developer; likes research methods, multivariate models, latent variables, individual differences, reproducibility, and R

Anouk Bouma

As a PhD student at the Meta-Research Center at Tilburg University I am interested in all things Meta-Science. My project specifically focusses on the trustworthiness of simulation studies within the social/behavioral sciences. I am also active as a board member of the Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS).

Ben Kretzler

Hi, I am Ben, a PhD student at the meta-research center at Tilburg University.

Caspar J. Van Lissa

My Vidi-funded research line uses machine learning for rigorous exploration, and uses the resulting data-driven insights to complement blind spots in theory.

Claudia Neuendorf

I am an educational pschologist interested in the social integration of students in their classroom. I love learning and adopting new methods and thinking about science. As a former research data manager, I have been drawn into Open Science by advocating Open Data and from there step by step developed my passion for promoting Open Science and research integrity.

Daniel Lakens

Associate Professor in the Human-Technology interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Daniel’s expertise includes meta-science, research methods and applied statistics.

Denny Borsboom

I have a long standing interest in theory construction and have developed various methodological tools to assist researchers in building theories.

Eiko Fried

My interests are how to best describe, measure, predict, and understand mental health problems. To do so, I conceptualize them as emergent properties that arise from complex, dynamical, biopsychosocial, transdiagnostic systems, rather than as clear-cut categories with simple causes. My team and I work at the intersection of mental health science and data science, and follow open scholarship principles.

Felix Schönbrodt

Prof. at Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Managing director of the LMU Open Science Center and board member of the META-REP priority program (“A meta-scientific research program to analyse and optimise replicability in the behavioral, social, and cognitive Sciences”). Interested in Open Science, Metascience, implicit motives, machine learning, responsible research assessment (CoARA), solarpunk, piano, and cooking.

Frances Grace Hart

Grace is a Postgraduate Associate in Yale University’s Psychology Department and lab manager of Dr. Shirley Wang’s Computational Clinical Science Lab.

She is broadly interested in existential psychology and metascience, including suicide; death beliefs and attitudes; measurement; and theory formalization.

Gidon T. Frischkorn

I currently work as an SNF Ambizione Fellow associated with the Cognitive Psychology Lab at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich. I am a psychometrician focussing on 1) the theory guided measurement of cognitive processes, such as working memory, processing speed, and attention, as well as 2) evaluating experimental manipulations that might affect these processes.

Joscha Dutli

PhD student in the Cognition Lab at the University of Zurich. I am interested in computational modeling and in the process of creating and testing theories in psychology.

Kasper Hornbæk

I am a professor of computer science, working in human-computer interaction (HCI). My work concerns studying and improving the development and use of theory about HCI; I am broadly interested in how other fields (notably psychology) deal with these topics.

Klaus Oberauer

I am a cognitive psychologist interested in the capacity limits of cognition. I study primarily working memory and its relations to attention, long-term memory, reasoning, as well as individual differences in cognition. I do behavioral experiments and try to understand their results with the help of computational models.

Kyra Evers

PhD student at the Psychological Methods department at the University of Amsterdam. In my research, I develop computational tools to aid theory formation in psychology. My main interest lies in applying a system dynamics perspective to psychopathology.

Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland

Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland is a Clinical Psychologist and Research Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies. I would like to contribute to the theory building in the field of trauma and stress. I am particularly interested in understanding change processes and developing innovative theoretical frameworks that can advance our understanding of traumatic stress responses.

Markus Eronen

I am a philosopher of science at the University of Groningen, working on the limits and possibilities of developing psychological theories and causal explanations.

Nick Ballou

Postdoc at the University of Oxford studying media use and mental health. Constantly confronting challenges for our field that—like Scooby Doo villains—were actually deficient theory development all along.

Noah N. N. Van Dongen

Noah Van Dongen works as a methodologist at the Amsterdam School of Law.

Patrick Kaschel

Patrick Kaschel is interested in methods for formal theory development and in using formal theories to enhance cumulative knowledge generation. He has a background in Psychology and Statistics.

Philipp Musfeld

Postdoctoral researcher in the Cognition Lab at the University of Zurich. Next to my main research interest in cognitive science, I am passionate about shaping a more open, transparent, and theory-driven culture in psychological research.

Rasoul Norouzi

Rasoul is a PhD student in the Methodology and Statistics department at Tilburg University, working under the supervision of Caspar van Lissa. His expertise lies in advanced text mining techniques and language models for retrieving information from scholarly papers. His PhD project aims to automate the generation and analysis of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) that capture cause-effect relationships. Through these graphs, he seeks to uncover hidden patterns and latent theoretical structures, refining existing theories and aiding in the development of new ones.

Riet van Bork

Assistant professor in psychological methods at the University of Amsterdam. My main area of research concerns how theory underlying psychological measurement relates to the statistical models that are used as measurement models in psychology.

Willem Frankenhuis

Willem Frankenhuis is Associate Professor at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam. He is also Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Crime, Security and Law in Germany. Before his current position, he worked at Utrecht University (2020-2023) and Radboud University (2012-2020). He studies how people develop in harsh and unpredictable conditions. His empirical work focuses on ‘hidden talents’, abilities enhanced by adversity, and ‘reasonable responses’, decisions and behavior tailored to the demands of adverse environments. In his theoretical work, he uses mathematical modeling to understand how adaptive processes operating on different timescales—evolution, development, and learning—tailor individuals to their environments.