People

Director

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Sy-Miin Chow, Ph.D.

Director, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
symiin@psu.edu
Tel:
814-867-2131
Office:
236 Health and Human Development Building

Scientists

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Timothy R. Brick, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
tbrick@psu.edu
Tel:
814-865-4868
Office:
231 Health and Human Development Building
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Zachary Fisher, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
fisherz@psu.edu
Tel:
814-867-3189
Office:
205 Health and Human Development Building
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Michael D. Hunter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
mdh282@psu.edu
Office:
228 Health and Human Development Building
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Yanling Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Email:
yxl823@psu.edu
Office:
235 Health and Human Development Building
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Zita Oravecz, Ph.D.

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
zita@psu.edu
Tel:
814-865-1546
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building

Affiliated Scientists

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David Manuel Almeida, Ph.D.

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies / Demography
Email:
dma18@psu.edu
Tel:
814-863-0438
Office:
403 Biobehavioral Health Building
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H. Harrington Cleveland, III, Ph.D.

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies / Demography
Email:
hhc10@psu.edu
Tel:
814-867-2370
Office:
234 Health and Human Development
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Max Crowley, Ph.D.

Director, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative (EIC)
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies / School of Public Policy
Email:
dmc397@psu.edu
Tel:
814-867-6471
Office:
219 Health and Human Development Building
Dr. John Felt

John Felt, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor, Center for Healthy Aging
Email:
jzf434@psu.edu
Office:
431 Biobehavioral Health Building
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Jennifer L. Maggs, Ph.D.

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
jmaggs@psu.edu
Office:
208 Health and Human Development Building
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Peter C.M. Molenaar, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Human Development and Family Studies / Psychology
Email:
pxm21@psu.edu
Tel:
814-863-8373
Office:
422 Biobehavioral Health Building
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Nilam Ram, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Communications at Stanford University / Department of Psychology at Stanford University
Email:
nilamram@stanford.edu
Office:
Stanford University
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Nelson Roque, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
nur375@psu.edu
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Alexis R. Santos, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies / Demography
Email:
alexis@psu.edu
Tel:
814-863-9718
Office:
226 Health and Human Development Building
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Martin J. Sliwinski, Ph.D.

Director, Geroscience and Dementia Prevention Consortium (GDPC)
Director, Center for Healthy Aging
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
mjs56@psu.edu
Tel:
814-863-9980
Office:
402 Biobehavioral Health Building

Students

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Christopher Crawford

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
cmcrawford@psu.edu
Office:
020 Health and Human Development Building
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Ethan Kile

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
eok5206@psu.edu
Office:
022 Health and Human Development Building
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Sharon Kim

Graduate Student, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Email:
skim@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Hyungeun Oh

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, College of Health and Human Development
Email:
hxo5077@psu.edu
Office:
020 Health and Human Development Building
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Priyanka Paul

Graduate Student, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Email:
pvp5558@psu.edu
Office:
20 Health and Human Development Building
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Ivan Jacob Agaloos Pesigan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Email:
ijapesigan@psu.edu
Office:
320 Biobehavioral Health Building
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Lindy Williams

Graduate Student, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Email:
lindy@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Young Won Cho

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
yfc5309@psu.edu
Office:
027 Health and Human Development Building
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Xiaoyue Xiong

Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies / Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Email:
xiaoyue_xiong@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building

Alumni

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Lizbeth Benson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Email:
libenson@umich.edu
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Mimi Brinberg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Email:
brinberg.2@osu.edu
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Meng Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods and Computational Psychology, Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California
Email:
mchen421@usc.edu
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Chelsea Dickens, M.S.

Data Solutions Engineer, Atorus Research Inc.
Email:
czd171@psu.edu
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Kathleen Gates, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology, Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email:
gateskm@email.unc.edu
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Allison Gray, M.S.

Data Analyst and Visualization Specialist, University of Virginia
Email:
alg9aa@virginia.edu
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Saeideh Heshmati, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University
Email:
saida.heshmati@cgu.edu
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Kyle D. Husmann

Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
kdh38@psu.edu
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Linying Ji

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology at Montana State University
Email:
linying.ji@montana.edu
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Rachel Koffer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Email:
rachel.koffer@asu.edu
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Eric Layland

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Email:
layland@udel.edu
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Jungmin Lee, Ph.D

Research Fellow, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Email:
jzl95@psu.edu
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Siwei Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, UC Davis
Email:
sweliu@ucdavis.edu
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Jessica Lougheed, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Email:
jlougheed@purdue.edu
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David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Email:
dlsta@seas.upenn.edu
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Chelsea Muth, Ph.D.

Psychologist and Resident in Counseling, Westhampton Family Psychologists
Email:
cbm5352@psu.edu
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Lu Ou, Ph.D.

Machine Learning Engineer, Meta
Email:
lzo114@psu.edu
Jonathan Park

Jonathan Park

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Psychology, Department of Psychology at University of California, Davis
Email:
imJPark@UCDavis.edu
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Roisin White, Ph.D.

Senior Biostatistician, Novartis
Email:
ruw168@psu.edu
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Jules Wood, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Email:
juliewood@wustl.edu
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Xiao Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Email:
xfy5031@psu.edu