Dr. Sarah Depaoli is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of California, Merced. She has been appointed as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Methods Center of the University of Tübingen.

She is a proven expert in the field of quantitative methods in the social and behavioural sciences, especially psychometry. She has had a broad impact in the past, e.g. in the field of Bayesian modelling and the modelling of longitudinal data. She has made both generic method developments of statistical-quantitative methods as well as content applications the object of her work (e.g. in the investigation of clinical phenomena).

Since 2016, she has been an Elected Member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), a highly selective and renowned professional association with a limited number of 65 members worldwide. She is also an associate editor in the most influential journals of psychometrics (e.g. Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research).

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