Psych #rstats Club

Pooja is a PhD student at Saarland University, Germany, where she investigates self-regulatory flexibility in everyday life. She completed her MA in Applied Psychology from University of Mumbai, India. She's passionate about science, increasing its accessibility, and research, specifically in the areas of self-regulation, self-control, motivation, emotions, and education. She is associated with several initiatives and collaborations working towards increasing accessibility and inclusivity in academia. 

Psych #rstats Club was founded by her to create a safe, inclusive, and accessible platform for learning R and statistics, with a focus on its application in Psychology and related fields. The club aims to help overcome barriers and provide a supportive community for those learning statistics and R, especially for those in the Global South.

Munna is currently a Research Intern at Axxonet Brain Research Lab, Bengaluru, India, and a Research Assistant at Stanford Psychophysiology Lab and ManyBabies Consortium.  Additionally, he is the Co-founder of #dev-ersity in academia, an initiative aimed at spreading awareness about the developmental psychology area in under-represented countries.

He is eager to contribute to the neurotech industry by applying his interests in affective neuroscience and clinical science. He is particularly passionate about leveraging advanced neurotechnological solutions to explore and address mood-related issues and psychopathology. His goal is to develop innovative tools that can provide deeper insights into how life experiences impact emotional well-being and resilience across different developmental stages.

Tanushka is currently pursuing her MSc in Neuropsychology from Christ University, Bengaluru. Her research interests lie (broadly) in the area of human cognition and cognitive neuroscience, more specifically related to empathy, pain perception, episodic memory and many more. She is also interested in neuropsychological assessment and intervention, specifically cognitive retraining. She firmly believes in open science and through her role at Psych R Stats Club, hopes to contribute to making R and statistics accessible to all.

Federico is a researcher on visual culture studying the social uses of photography. As an associate professor at UCA and UJMD in El Salvador,  Federico advocates for methodological reproducibility and open science. His PhD candidacy, aims to enrich how self-presentation through photographs work. On his spare time, he writes about photography and develop documentary projects.