J.M. Wicherts
Professor of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University
Jelte Wicherts (1976) received both his Master’s degree (2002, cum laude) and PhD degree (2007, cum laude) from the Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on a wide range of topics related to reproducibility, replication, individual differences, statistics, and measurement. His research interests include group differences in IQ, reproducibility, biases in research, measurement invariance, stereotype threat, the Flynn Effect, structural equation modeling, errors with statistics, and data sharing.
He is (co)author of 90 publications in various peer-reviewed journals, including Intelligence, Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Learning and Individual Differences, Structural Equation Modeling, Behavior Research Methods, Psychological Methods, Psychological Science, PLoS ONE, and Nature. He has reviewed for 62 different journals and is an editorial board member of the journals Psychological Science, Intelligence, Psychological Methods, and the Journal of Health Psychology.
He is an Academic Editor at PLOS ONE and an associate editor at Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement. From 2007-2012 he was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 2012-2017 he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University. In 2017, he became full professor in methodology of the social and behavioral sciences at the same department. He has acquired Open Competition (200K Euros) VENI (208K) and VIDI (800K) grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and a Consolidator grant (2000k) from the European Research Council.
He is affiliate member of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). He is head of the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University.