Dr. Thomas Olino, director of the Child and Adolescent Development of Emotion, Personality and Psychopathology Lab at Temple Univeristy, is trained as a clinical psychologist with research interests in developmental psychopathology, particularly on the development of depression and anxiety. As part of this substantive line of research, his questions required quantitative training in longitudinal modeling and approaches to understand measurement across informants and time. He now teaches courses in multivariate methods and structural equation modeling, in addition to providing consultation to students and colleagues at his home and other institutions using an array of methods. 

Gabriele Limonta is currently a pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where his research focuses on psychometrics, personality psychology, research methodology, and open science. He is developing the Psychogeometric Hypothesis, a novel framework for investigating how people perceive and organize personality through judgments of interpersonal similarity. This approach complements traditional psycholexical models by integrating multidimensional scaling, permutation-based methods, mixed-effects modeling, generalized Procrustes analysis, and natural language processing. In parallel, he is also developing a blockchain-based framework to support open science practices by transforming research outputs into transparent, durable, and easily auditable records, while enabling novel systems for recognizing scholarly contributions through cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens. As an early-career researcher, he aspires to contribute to the development of a more rigorous, reproducible, open, and cumulative psychological science by advancing both methodological innovation and scientific transparency.