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Sigert Ariens is a mathematical psychologist focused on the dynamic paradigm in psychological science. His main areas of research are model interpretation, study design, and misspecification. He has developed a framework and software tools to help researchers interpret dynamic model structures and align them with psychological hypotheses, and works on study designs which aim to maximize the amount of information about the dynamic parameters. His work on misspecification criticizes atheoretic methods for handling dependence over time.

Laura Bringmann is an associate professor at the Department of Psychometrics and Statistics at the University of Groningen, and heads the LaBlab (Laura Bringmann's intensive longitudinal data lab). Her research focuses on bridging the gap between fields such as statistics, philosophy, methodology, and clinical psychology.

Marina Dubova is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley, where she directs the Cognitive Epistemology Lab. She studies the cognitive mechanisms of scientific discovery, using computational modeling and empirical work with scientists to understand how we actually observe and build theories about the world, and how we ought to.

Markus Eronen is an associate professor at the University of Groningen (Department of Theoretical Philosophy), working on philosophy of science and the limits and possibilities of developing psychological theories and causal explanations.

Andrew Heathcote is a cognitive scientist whose work centres on evidence accumulation models of rapid decision-making. He is known for developing the Linear Ballistic Accumulator (LBA), a widely used model for understanding how people make choices across laboratory, occupational, and clinical settings. His research integrates mathematical modelling with cognitive science to investigate memory, skill acquisition, and decision control across the lifespan.

Craig Hedge is a cognitive psychologist interested in attention control and decision-making. He is particularly interested in whether cognitive modelling improves our ability to predict and explain individual differences in real-world behaviours, relative to traditional behavioural measures.

David Kellen is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University. His research focuses on recognition memory, judgment and decision making, and the development and evaluation of formal models in cognitive psychology. Much of this work centers on signal detection theory and probabilistic models of choice.

Adam Sanborn is a cognitive scientist interested in the rationality of human behaviour, which he studies with Bayesian models, approximations to Bayesian models, and behavioural experiments. He is interested in developing general-purpose models of cognition that can explain why human behaviour broadly corresponds to Bayesian models, yet also show strong deviations.

Francis Tuerlinckx is a psychometrician and professor of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences at KU Leuven in Belgium. His research deals with the mathematical modeling of various aspects of human behavior. More specifically, he works on item response theory, reaction time modeling, and dynamical systems data analysis.

Wolf Vanpaemel is head of the Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences at KU Leuven. His research is situated within mathematical psychology and centers on methodological and metascientific issues, including Bayesian statistics, and the concept of the data prior as a tool for severe theory testing. He recently authored a resource for scrutinizing and replicating studies: Evaluating and replicating studies: A practical guide (available at earsguide.io).