IQSS is comprised of a community of exceptional scholars and staff, who collaborate on and provide support for a wide range of social science research.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
JP Onnela is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Before joining the faculty, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School, one... Read more about Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Faculty Co-director, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, SEAS, Harvard University Co-director, Harvard Data Science Initiative
David Parkes leads research at the interface between economics and computer science, with a focus on electronic commerce, artificial intelligence and...
David Pedulla is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research agenda examines the consequences of nonstandard, contingent, and precarious employment for workers' social and economic outcomes as well as the processes leading to race and gender labor market stratification... Read more about David Pedulla
Director of IACS, An Wang Professor of Computer Science Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Hanspeter Pfister is An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... Read more about Hanspeter Pfister
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School Local affiliate at Center for European Studies
I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, and I am affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Across the world, dissatisfaction with elected governments is at all-time highs. My research aims... Read more about Vincent Pons
Ariel Procaccia is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He works on a broad and dynamic set of problems related to AI, algorithms... Read more about Ariel Procaccia
Director, Program in Islamic Law (HLS) Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law, a Professor of History, and the faculty director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. She has held appointments as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as an Associate Professor at NYU Department of... Read more about Intisar Rabb
Pia Raffler is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Harvard University. She studies the politics of development, focusing on governance, bureaucracy, and electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa... Read more about Pia Raffler
Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS in 1982. He clerked for... Read more about Mark Ramseyer
Mitchell L. & Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
The principal focus of Dr. Robins' research has been the development of analytic methods appropriate for drawing causal inferences from complex observational... Read more about James Robins
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, HKS
Dani Rodrik is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has published widely in the areas of economic...
Jon Rogowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His work focuses broadly on American politics, with specific... Read more about Jon C Rogowski
George Gund Professor of Economics & Business Administration - Emeritus, Harvard Business School Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Alvin Elliot Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at ...
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, Department of Statistics
Professor Rubin's research interests include causal inference in experiments and observational studies, inference in sample surveys with nonresponse and...
Kevin M. Ryan is Professor of Linguistics specializing in phonology, which concerns the patterning of speech sounds and sound-related phenomena in human languages and verbal arts
Raffaella Sadun is a Professor at the Harvard Business School. Professor Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as... Read more about Rafaella Sadun
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology
Robert J. Sampson is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, where he was appointed in 2003. Before that he taught for twelve... Read more about Robert Sampson
Professor of Political Science at University of Massachesetts, Amherst
Brian Schaffner is a Professor in the political science department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on public opinion,... Read more about Brian Schaffner
Mark is a professor of economics at the University of Fribourg. He mostly works in political economics and public economics. He is interested in how...
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science Professor of Economics and of Statistics
Neil Shephard has been Professor of Economics and of Statistics at Harvard University since 2013. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Statistics (first class awarded with distinction) from the University of York and a M.Sc. in Statistics (awarded with distinction) and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (LSE)... Read more about Neil Shephard
George D. Markham Professor of Government, Department of Government
Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government. He is the author or co-author of: Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic... Read more about Kenneth Shepsle
John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Andrei Shleifer holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT. Before coming...
Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, FAS
Professor Snyder's primary research and teaching interests are in American politics. He has written on elections, campaign finance, legislative behavior and institutions, direct democracy, the media, and corruption... Read more about James Snyder
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School/Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Stamoulis' research interests are at the intersection of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Data Science. She leads multiple projects that together aim to elucidate the evolving neural circuitry of the typically/atypically developing brain that supports cognitive function across domains, using large-scale brain datasets and novel computational tools. A recent research direction in her laboratory... Read more about Caterina Stamoulis
Psychology and Organizational Behavior, GSAS & HBS
My research interests touch broadly on the intersection of ecoNomics and psychology. I focus on behavioral interventions designed to maximize the likelihood of... Read more about Evan DeFilippis
PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Marta Dormal is an Applied Economist specialized in Early Childhood Development (ECD). She is currently a PhD Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Marta’s research focuses on measuring and improving the quality of ECD programs in low- and middle- income countries. Her research uses mostly econometric and psychometric methods... Read more about Marta Dormal
Bnaya Dreyfuss studies the intersection of behavioral economics, political economy, and public policy. In current work, he is studying how humans evaluate and... Read more about Bnaya Dreyfuss
I work on the intellectual history and literature of Early China (3rd - 1st centuries BCE). I am especially interested in digital methods for the analysis of... Read more about Heng DU
Raúl Duarte is a Ph.D. student in Political Economy and Government. His research interests span political economy, economic development, comparative politics, and public finance... Read more about Raúl Duarte
PhD Candidate in Education Policy and Program Evaluation, Graduate School of Education
Jorge Encinas is a PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on increasing college completion and success and on...
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Economy and Government
José Ramón Enríquez is a third-year Ph.D. student in Political Economy and Government. His interests lie in the political economy of development and comparative economic development with a particular interest in elite behavior... Read more about José Ramón Enríquez
Prior to embarking on her doctoral studies at Harvard University, Andrea had a broad exposure to global health policy and research. She previously worked at... Read more about Andrea Feigl
I am broadly interested in emotions, gender, mental health, social networks, cultural sociology, and applying cognitive science to sociology. My last project... Read more about Maleah Fekete
Anny is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and a doctoral fellow in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a multi-method researcher... Read more about Anny Tazio Hal Rubinson Fenton
Gabriella's research explores how social norms and identity influence health and health behaviors, with an emphasis on mental health in marginalized...
Ashvin Gandhi is a PhD candidate in the Harvard University Department of Economics. His research interests are in understanding how consumers, producers, and... Read more about Ashvin Gandhi
Graduate Student, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Kennedy School, Department of EcoNomics
Siddharth George is a PhD student at the Department of EcoNomics and the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests are in development ecoNomics, political... Read more about Siddharth Eapen George
PhD Student in Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jonah Goldberg is a PhD student in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He specializes in the study of health systems, and his research seeks to apply insights from organizational economics to better understand variation in healthcare provider performance... Read more about Jonah S Goldberg
My main research interests are related to formal semantics, pragmatics and the syntax-semantics interface. I am also interested in understanding how... Read more about Aurore Gonzalez
Ohjae Gowen is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University. He studies causes and consequences of childbearing... Read more about Ohjae Gowen
I am a PhD student in the Department of Government focusing on international relations. I am interested in political psychology and the impact of public... Read more about Naima Green
Graduate School of Arts and Science, Harvard University, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Yichen Guan is a second year master student in Middle Eastern Studies. Her current research mainly focuses on the relationship between the diverse forms of... Read more about Yichen Guan
Sinn Won is a doctoral student in sociology at Harvard University. Broadly speaking, he is interested in the causes, patterns and consequences of changes in... Read more about Sinn Won Han
Kiara Hernandez a PhD candidate in Government and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests are in political psychology and political behavior. Her dissertation centers modern-day low-wage service sector workplaces as a way to understand how individuals make sense of social difference... Read more about Kiara Hernandez
Molly Hickey is a PhD candidate in the Harvard Government Department. She studies the political economy of authoritarianism in the Middle East with an emphasis on labor policy, welfare, and foreign aid. Prior to beginning her PhD at Harvard... Read more about Molly Hickey
Research Assistant, Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) Undergraduate in Environmental Science and Public Policy; secondary concentration in Global Health and Health Policy and citation in Spanish
Seo-Hyun is interested in the intersection of health and environmental change, particularly regarding marine ecosystems. Associated with IQSS, she is working on a project examining changes in nutrition... Read more about Seo-Hyun Yoo
I am working under Professor Skocpol on her project "Shifting US Political Terrains," specifically to collect and analyze data related to political... Read more about Jesse Zhang
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at IQSS. This role collaborates with Dataverse team members and other stakeholders within the Dataverse Community to manage, coordinate, and support program activities including reporting, prioritization, and track deliverables. Previously, Boyd served as manager of the Harvard Library Research Data Services group. In addition to research data management... Read more about Ceilyn Boyd
Josh is a data scientist, social scientist, and methodologist with a background in psychology, neuroscience, and multivariate statistics. As a Data Science Specialist at IQSS, Josh provides methods and analysis consulting services and collaborative support to Harvard-affiliate researchers across the sciences, with a focus on experimental methods, exploratory analysis, and regression modeling of empirical data in R and python... Read more about Joshua Cetron
Research Associate & Data Scientist, Human Flourishing Program
Ying Chen, Sc.D., serves as an empirical research scientist for the program. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School... Read more about Ying Chen
Associate Director of the Human Flourishing Program
Flynn Cratty serves as Associate Director of the Human Flourishing Program. He oversees the Program's day-to-day functions and engagement with Harvard faculty and students. An intellectual historian... Read more about Flynn Cratty
Jorge joined the Sponsored Finance team at IQSS in July 2023 as a Sr. Sponsored Research Administrator. Jorge supports several principal investigators affiliated with IQSS... Read more about Jorge Dasilva
Danny recently earned his PhD at Caltech in Quantitative Social Sciences, where he developed his research interests in Political Methodology, American Politics and Congress. His research focuses on latent variable models, Bayesian statistics, legislatures, and natural language processing... Read more about Danny Ebanks
Farhan Ghrairi comes to us from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, as well as Harvard Global Support Services, and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Students... Read more about Farhan Ghrairi
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Product Management
Andrew Juraschek is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Product Management at IQSS. In this role, under the direction of the Faculty Director, Andrew partners with the academic, technical, and administrative leadership of the Institute to develop and maintain the various functions and emerging projects across IQSS.
Devika Kakkar is a Project Manager at CGA where she leads the area of Geospatial Data Science and Big Data. She has more than a decade of experience in Geoinformation Science and has been instrumental in building several high-impact geospatial solutions... Read more about Devika Kakkar
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at IQSS. This role collaborates with Dataverse team members and other stakeholders within the Dataverse Community to manage, coordinate, and support program activities including reporting, prioritization, and track deliverables. Previously, Boyd served as manager of the Harvard Library Research Data Services group. In addition to research data management... Read more about Ceilyn Boyd
Josh is a data scientist, social scientist, and methodologist with a background in psychology, neuroscience, and multivariate statistics. As a Data Science Specialist at IQSS, Josh provides methods and analysis consulting services and collaborative support to Harvard-affiliate researchers across the sciences, with a focus on experimental methods, exploratory analysis, and regression modeling of empirical data in R and python... Read more about Joshua Cetron
Bailey Moore joined IQSS in 2024 as an IT Client Services Support Specialist. She went to school for Computer Networking at Lamar Institute of Technology...
