Dr. Sacha Epskamp

Associate Professor

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Biography

Sacha Epskamp is an associate professor at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Psychology. He holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc from the University of Amsterdam. His previous positions include work at the University of Amsterdam in the Department of Psychology and as a research fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Studies. Sacha served as a visiting researcher at the Complexity Institute of Nanyang Technological University in 2015. Epskamp's research focuses on network psychometrics, meta-science, complexity, and modeling time-series data within psychological contexts. He is particularly recognized for his work in estimating network models from psychological datasets and has developed software packages widely used across various fields of psychological research. Sacha teaches courses on multivariate statistics and data science. His contributions to the field have been acknowledged with several awards, including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize from the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences and a dissertation prize from the Psychometric Society. He also received a junior scientific award from the Complex Systems Society.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2019-01-01 — Present

National University of Singapore • Singapore

Teaching multivariate statistics and conducting research in psychometrics and related fields.

Awards

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Leamer-Rosenthal Prize

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Dissertation Prize

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Junior Scientific Award

Requirements for National University of Singapore

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
Verbal
Required:155
Quantitative
Required:165
Analytical Writing
Required:3.5
Overall
Required:3.5
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree with Honors or equivalent Strong quantitative background
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Department of Economics