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. Josh joined IQSS in June of 2023 after completing his Ph.D. in Psychology at Harvard, where he studied the psychological and neural representations of social and political information, including political propositional knowledge and social group attitudes. During graduate school, Josh cultivated an interest in methods and analysis development and support as a Teaching Fellow for multiple graduate-level statistics courses, teaching advanced statistical methods to new and intermediate graduate students and collaborating with statisticians to develop new analytical methods. Prior to his Ph.D., Josh completed his B.A. in neuroscience at Dartmouth College, where he studied the neural representations of concept knowledge acquired through classroom-based learning. Outside of work, you can find Josh playing music, rock climbing, and exploring the coffee shops of Somerville and Cambridge.