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IOPS: preview 2025, flashback Winter Conference 2024

First of all, happy new year to all of you! We hope 2025 will be a healthy, fruitful, and inspiring year for you.
We also hope that everybody enjoyed the IOPS 2024 Winter Conference at Statistics Netherlands (CBS) last month. We can look back at very interesting presentations and fruitful discussions. Thanks a lot for your active participation! We also would like to thank the local organisers from CBS again for all their efforts to make this IOPS conference a success! And we congratulate Meike Waaiers, Yugi Liu and Andrés Felipe Pérez Alonso for their winning posters and presentation.

See some impressions below (click on the pictures to open a large format).

From left to right: Joris Mulder (Chairman IOPS), Meike Waaiers (best poster award), Andrés Felipe Pérez Alonso (best presentation award), Yugi Liu (best poster award), Reinoud Stoel (CBS/IOPS).

Summer Conference 2025: Save the date!
Hopefully we see you all again at the upcoming IOPS Summer 2025 conference in Leiden: June 12-13. So save the date!

Dissertation Qixiang Fang

On 6 December 2024 Qixiang Fang defended his thesis: Leveraging Measurement Theory for Natural Language Processing Research at Utrecht University (UU). Read more

Dissertation Anna Langener

On 5 September 2024 Anna Langener defended her thesis: From Data Streams to Mental Health Predictions: Improving the use of Passive Measures from Digital Devices at the University of Groningen (RUG). Read more

Dissertation Jeroen Mulder

On 7 June 2024 Jeroen Mulder defended his thesis: Structural Equation Modeling for Description, Prediction, and Causation at the university of Utrecht. Read more.

Dissertation Olmo van den Akker

On 22 March 2024 Olmo van den Akker defended his thesis: Preregistration in psychology: Past, present, and prospects at the university of Tilburg. Read more.

Dissertation Felix Clouth

On 1 March 2024 Felix Clouth defended his thesis: Latent Class Models for Causal Inference at the university of Tilburg. Read more

Dissertation Anton Olsson-Collentine

On 9 February 2024 Anton Olsson-Collentine defended his thesis: Well-reasoned and arbitrary decisions: Investigating how and why research outcomes vary in psychology at the university of Tilburg. Read more

Dissertation Merle-Marie Pittelkow

On 25 October 2023 Merle Pittelkow defended her thesis Assessing Evidence and Uncertainty: Informed Decision Making in Regulatory Drug Approval and Replication Target Selection, at the University of Groningen. Read more

Dissertation Damiano D’Urso

On 7 July 2023 Damiano D’Urso defended his thesis Safeguarding psychological measurement: psychometric approaches to correct for test and agreeing bias, at Tilburg University. Read more

Summer conference 2023

We can look back at an inspiring and very enjoyable Summer Conference 2023. Many thanks to the organising team at Tilburg University and the IOPS members who contributed to the conference by presenting their work. All of which were greatly appreciated.

The next Winter conference will take place in Amsterdam from 20-21 December. Save the date!