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Assoc Prof

Sacha Epskamp

Associate Professor

Psychology

Orcid identifier0000-0003-4884-8118
  • Associate Professor
    Psychology

BIO

Sacha Epskamp is an associate professor and research director at the National University of Singapore, Department of Psychology, where he heads the lab on Psychological Methods. Previously, he worked at the University of Amsterdam in the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Urban Mental Health. In addition, Sacha Epskamp is a former research fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Studies, and has been a visiting researcher at the Complexity Institute of Nanyang Technological University. In 2016, Sacha Epskamp completed his PhD on network psychometrics – estimating network models from psychological datasets and equating these to established psychometric modeling techniques. He has implemented these methods in several software packages now routinely used in diverse fields of psychological research. Sacha Epskamp teaches multivariate statistics and data science, and his research interests involve (network) psychometrics, meta-science and reproducibility, complexity, time-series modeling, and dynamical systems modeling. Sacha Epskamp has received several awards for his research, including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, the dissertation prize of the psychometric society, the junior scientific reward of the Complex Systems Society, and the Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence award for transformative early career contributions.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    ARTS & SOC SC, PSYCHOLOGY, SINGAPORE18 Jul 2022

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor (tenured)
    University of Amsterdam1 Aug 2016 - 15 Jun 2022

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Humanities & Social Sciences
    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands5 Apr 2017
  • Master of Science, Humanities & Social Sciences
    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands31 Aug 2012
  • Bachelor of Science, Humanities & Social Sciences
    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands30 Jul 2010

FIELDS OF RESEARCH