People

This page lists selected people with past or present formal roles in the lab and/or visible contributions to the lab’s methods and infrastructure.

Core members

• Philip Leifeld — PI — Professor of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
  Statistical inference and methods for dynamic networks and text; research software.
  Links: GitHub · Website · Google Scholar

Ongoing contributors

(Previously employed or supervised or collaborating closely on lab-linked infrastructure or methods projects.)

• Laurence Brandenberger — Former PhD student (2014-2019) → now Senior Scientist, University of Zurich Contributions to dna; author of the rem R package; ongoing methods collaborations.
  Paper outputs: AJPS, forthcoming · PSJ 2022 · BJPS 2019
  Links: GitHub · Website · Google Scholar

• Tim Henrichsen — Former PhD student/postdoc (2018-2024) → now Research Fellow, Univ. of Birmingham
  Contributions to dna: IRT scaling; rDNA user interface; backbone detection.
  Paper outputs: backbone working paper · R&P 2025 · JEPP 2022 · Addiction 2020
  Links: GitHub · Website · Google Scholar

Alumni & past contributors

(Former members/affiliates/contributors.)

• Kristijan Garic — Former PhD student (2023-2024) → Survey Data Linkage Officer, ISER, University of Essex
  Contributions to dna: phase detection and frame evolution methods implementation in rDNA.
  Paper outputs: JCMS, accepted · PSJ, forthcoming · ER&SS 2025
  Links: GitHub · Website · Google Scholar

• Claudia Zucca — Former postdoc (2018-2019) → now Assistant Professor, JADS & Tilburg University & TU/e
  Contributions to texreg: plotting functionality, praise function, and extraction methods.
  Links: GitHub · Website · Google Scholar

• Johannes Gruber — Former research assistant (2017-2018) → now Team Leader, GESIS
  Contributions to dna: rDNA UI; DNA documentation. Author of LexisNexisTools and other R packages.
  Links: GitHub · Website · Google Scholar

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