Julie Wood

Headshot of Julie Wood with short brown hair, glasses, and black blouse with white floral print.

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

Biography

I am a graduate student in HDFS working with Dr. Zita Oravecz. Broadly, I’m interested in quantitative methods for analyzing intensive longitudinal data and integrating the study of individual development over both short- and long-term data streams. I am especially interested in how social scientists can map theory to a differential equations framework – borrowing models from physics, economics, and other fields – to specify and test theories of intraindividual change, and interindividual differences in intraindividual change. My areas of research include continuous-time stochastic process modeling (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process models, Poisson process models), Bayesian estimation of linear and nonlinear growth models and dynamical systems modeling.