Our Team¶
Psych-DS is an open-source project funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative. It is developed and maintained by a small team within the MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab and is closely associated with the Children Helping Science platform.
Melissa Kline-Struhl¶
Executive Director, Psych-DS and Children Helping Science¶

Melissa is passionate about data management and robust science methods, and has been working with the open science community on Psych-DS on and off since 2018. She previously earned a PhD from MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences and worked at the Center for Open Science; she is now the Executive Director of Children Helping Science, a platform for data collection with babies and children. In her spare time she likes hanging out with her daughter Talia and playing co-op boardgames.
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Brian Leonard¶
Software Developer, Psych-DS¶

Brian develops open-source tools to help the Psych-DS community. His background as a scientist is in Linguistics, and he has been providing technical support to researchers for going on a decade now. He lives in Baltimore with his gray cat Benjals, and in his free time he likes to write poetry, make strangers laugh, and play pool.
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Psych-DS Contributors¶
The Psych-DS specification has been developed by an open source community, including participants in hackathons at meetings of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences.
Contributors
- Tal Yarkoni
- Lisa DeBruine
- Alicia Hoeflich Mohr
- Erin M. Buchanan
- Ruben Arslan
- Stephen R. Martin
- Chris Gorgolewski
- Andreas M. Brandmaier
- Balazs Aczel
- Mathew Ling
- Peder Isager
- Anne Scheel
- Lorne Campbell
- Patrick S. Forscher
- Hannah Moshontz
- Kaitlyn Werner
- Joshua R. de Leeuw
- Russ Poldrack
- Kirstie Whitaker
- Rickard Carlsson
- Felix Henninger
- Oliver Lindemann
- Wolf Vanpaemel
- Felix Schönbrodt
- Ian Hussey
- Eoghan Ó Carragáin
- Brett Buttliere
- Thomas Pronk
- Rémi Gau
- Matt Jaquiery
- Adam Kimbler
- Robert Oostenveld
- Cyril Pernet
- Guiomar Niso
- Samuel Guay
- Gustav Nilsonne
- Eduard Klapwijk
SIPS 2022 Hackathon attendees¶
Attendees
- Ian Hussey
- Eva Rubínová
- Janna Wennberg
- Jack Friedrich
- Julia Strand
- Katrina Sewell
- Tamas Nagy
- Mahmoud Elsherif
- Beth Clarke
- Alina Kuimova
- Eric Jorgenson
- Julia Bottesini
- Julia Sunderland-Baker
- Brittany Hall
- Nin Dougall
- Eric Tu
- Alex Uzdavines
- Cole J. Kennedy