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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Peter C.M. Molenaar, Ph.D.

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

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
zita@psu.edu
Tel:
814-865-1546
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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At Penn State from 1998-2021

David A. Wagstaff, Ph.D.

Research Technologist, Human Development and Family Studies

A former member of QuantDev and a much admired colleague.
People may forget what you said and what you did. But people will never forget the passion you made us all feel about quantitative methods.

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)
Associate 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
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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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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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Kelly Rulison, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
klr250@psu.edu
Tel:
814-867-2812
Office:
204 Health and Human Development Building
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Martin J. Sliwinski, Ph.D.

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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Chelsea Dickens

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
czd171@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Kyle D. Husmann

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
kdh38@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Eric Layland

Prevention and Methodology Training Fellow, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
elayland@psu.edu
Office:
801 Ford Building
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Jungmin Lee

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
jzl95@psu.edu
Office:
420 Biobehavioral Health Building
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Yanling Li

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
yxl823@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Jonathan Park

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
JPark@psu.edu
Office:
201 Old Main
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Julie Wood

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
jfw5255@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building

Alumni

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Lizbeth Benson

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
leb237@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Mimi Brinberg

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
mjb6504@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Meng Chen

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
mxc681@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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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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Linying Ji

Postdoctoral Scholar, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev) / Biobehavioral Health
Email:
lzj114@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Rachel Koffer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh
Email:
rek183@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.

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
Email:
dlsta@seas.upenn.edu
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Chelsea Muth

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
cbm5352@psu.edu
Office:
115 Health and Human Development Building
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Lu Ou, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, ACTNext
Email:
lu.ou@act.org
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Roisin White

Prevention and Methodology Training Fellow, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
ruw168@psu.edu
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Xiao Yang

Graduate Student Researcher, Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core (Quantdev)
Predoctoral Fellow, Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
xfy5031@psu.edu
Office:
422 Biobehavioral Health Building