Curriculum Vitae Personal information Name: Rebecca Margaretha Kuiper Date of birth: 11 January 1982 Contact: Department of Methodology and Statistics Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Utrecht University 3584 CH Utrecht Room C1.10 Telephone: 0(031)30 – 253 4563 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.uu.nl/staff/RMKuiper Summary I am an Assistant Professor at the University Utrecht Department of Methods and Statistics. My specializations are model selection (using information criteria), theory-based hypotheses, Bayesian evidence synthesis, and modeling cross-lagged relationships (using a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model or a discrete-time or continuous-time first-order vector autoregressive model). Professional expertise 2013 – present Assistant professor; Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University. (1.0 fte) 2012 – 2013 Lecturer methods and statistics; Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University. (0.4 fte) 2011 – 2013 Postdoctoral fellow; Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University. (0.6 fte) 2010 – 2012 Junior statistician; Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Quality of Life, Prevention and Health Care, Leiden. (October 2010 – April 2011 0.6 fte; April 2011 – April 2012 0.4 fte) 2007 – 2011 PhD student; Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University. (In total, 3.7 fte) Graduation date: January 27, 2012. Dissertation: Model selection: How to evaluate order restrictions. Supervisor: Prof. dr. H. Hoijtink. 2006 Data-analyst; Blue Flame Data (New York), Groningen. (on average 0.2 fte) 2005 Trainee at Trendbox B.V. (Amsterdam), writing thesis, Groningen. (1 fte) 1996 – 2005 Various moonlight jobs Research grants 2016 – 2020 VENI-grant: Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This is a prestigious career development award for the top 10% of researchers in the Netherlands. Project Studying time-lagged effects using ESM-data: Statistics lag behind, it is time to go continuously (December 2016 – November 2020; €250.000). 2012 – 2014 Grant financed by Utrecht University (internal Aspasia funding to support women in research) to grant research time to develop a second research line. (September 2012 – September 2014, 0.1 fte research time; €13.100). 2015 Travel grant, International Conference of Psychological Science (ICPS). Education 2005 – 2007 Human Behaviour in Social Contexts (research master), University of Groningen (in Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). Major in Psychometrics and Statistics (degree on March 2007 – cum laude). 2003 – 2004 Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (Finland). 2000 – 2005 Econometrics and Operations Research (master; in Dutch: doctoraal), University of Groningen. Major in Operations Research & major in Econometrics (degree on November 2005). 2000 – 2005 ‘Honours-traject’ at research school SOM, University of Groningen. 1994 – 2000 Gymnasium (Dollard College, Bellingwolde and Winschoten). Research Research Summary My first line of research is an independent continuation of my PhD-projects. In this line, I developed (together with PhD-students) hypothesis-evaluation techniques called GORIC and GORICA: information criteria that can evaluate theory-based hypotheses. This led to several first- and last- author publications in prestigious journals, such as Journal of Statistical Software, Biometrika, Psychological Methods, and Structural Equation Modelling, and to open-source software (R packages, (shiny) web applications, and stand-alone software) with accompanying tutorials/vignettes. Internationally and nationally, I am a renowned expert in the field of evaluating theory-based hypotheses using information criteria, as is illustrated by the following: • Researchers from psychology/psychometrics, sociology, and biostatistics contacted me after reading my articles: I have established a network with researchers from, for example, Hannover, Christchurch, Melbourne, Ghent, and Hasselt. This has, among other things, led to joint publications and software development. • Researchers from Germany, Australia, and Belgium visited me and/or invited me to visit them; e.g., Prof.dr. Ludiwg Hothorn (Institute of Biostatistics, Hannover), Dr. Yves Rosseel (Ghent University), and Dr. Bernd Weiss (GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim). • I have been invited to i. present my work 15 times and give 8 workshops at (inter)national universities, research institutes, and conferences (e.g., for three universities in Hannover, at the GESIS-Leibniz- Institute, and the University-Medical-Center-Amsterdam); ii. organize and chair a Bayesian session of ASA-Spring-Methodology-Conference; and iv. be a statistical consultant at The-Hidden-Epidemic-Symposium organized by the Augeo Foundation. Additionally, I visit international conferences, give presentations and workshops, and teach in postgraduate courses. • JASP (via Prof.dr. Eric-Jan Wagenmakers) is in the process of including GORICA. • I have served as a reviewer for 30+ international journals. After my PhD, I started an independent second research line in the field of modeling lagged relationships. Utrecht University awarded me research time, using NWO Aspasia funding, for working in this area. In 2016, I received the prestigious Veni grant, in which I brought these two research topics together such that researchers can model individually-varying cross-lagged relationships and evaluate their hypotheses regarding these relationships. I am participating in the Dutch-Flemish network group regarding Time Series and Network Dynamics (DynaNet), consisting of psychometricians, statisticians and substantive researchers. My publications are again in prestigious journals: Psychological Methods and Structural Equation Modelling. Also on this topic, I am considered an expert: I receive invitations to presentations and workshops and to supervise PhD- students who have their own funding. I brought/bring both research topics together such that researchers can model individually-varying cross-lagged relationships (with a multivariate multilevel continuous-time model) and evaluate their hypotheses regarding these relationships. Due to the calls for replications, I recently connected my two research lines with meta-analysis: I developed continuous-time meta-analysis for cross-lagged models to correct for the time-interval dependency of the lagged-estimates (CTmeta; Kuiper and Ryan, 2020; Kuiper, 2020); and applied the GORICA to the resulting overall lagged-estimates (Kuiper, accepted). I notice(d) that a wealth of valuable information remains unexploited. To prevent this from being research waste and thus a waste of money, I will (further) develop, evaluate, and popularized evidence synthesis: the aggregation of support for a central hypothesis. Recently, I also extended the use of the GORIC (e.g., Vanbrabant et al., 2020) and developed GORICA (Kuiper et al., 2020; Altınısık et al., unpublished1), which aids the development of evidence synthesis. Thus, now, it is time for the next step: Use my model selection expertise in aggregating evidence to develop evidence synthesis methods, using GORIC(A) and BMS. This method will harness the combined potential of heterogeneous and homogeneous studies: which increases the power, robustness, and generalizability of findings; and it will render previously inaccessible insights into societal problems. I will apply my newly developed methods with, among others, the following substantive researchers from various fields: Dr. Bernd Weiss and his group in psychology and economics (GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim), Dr. Matthias Bluemke in managerial psychology (GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim), Simon Ellerbrock in political science (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim), Prof.dr. Peter Kuppens psychology using cross-lagged models (Psychology and Educational Sciences, Leuven University), Prof.dr. Henk Aarts in the field of nudging in social psychology (Psychology Department of Utrecht University), and Prof.dr. Werner Raub and Prof.ir. Vincent Buskens in sociology (Sociology Department, Utrecht University). Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Raub and Prof. Dr. Buskens contacted me for my expertise in aggregating Bayesian evidence. We will be working with Prof. Dr. Klugkist and Lion Behrens on a (applied) sociological and a methodological paper. International collaboration • Dr. Bernd Weiss, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Mannheim, Germany. He invited me for presentations, workshops and visits at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. We will work on applications of my Bayesian evidence aggregation method. • Dr. Frank Zenker Department of Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden. Together with Erich H. Witte, Dr. Thomas Schäfer, Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb, and Prof. Dr. Hoijtink in a replication research project. • Daniel Heck, Mannheim University, Germany. We worked on implementing my work (i.e., GORIC and GORICA) in his R package multinomineq (concerning evaluating informative hypotheses in multinomial models). • Member of Consortium on Individual Development (CID) in which researchers from multiple universities and disciplines in the Netherlands collaborate to investigate why some children