Emilio Ferrer

In addition to his academic appointment in Psychology at UC Davis, Emilio Ferrer is a member of the Graduate Group in Biostatistics. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Mind and Brain. His research interests include methods to analyze change and intra-individual variability, in particular latent change models and dynamical systems. He currently serves on the board of Psychological Methods and is a member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Research in Child Development. He also serves as a member of the Research Review Board of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Professor Ferrer is the co-editor of the book Statistical Methods for Modeling Human Dynamics and author of the upcoming book Dynamics of Dyadic Interactions.

Research Focus

Professor Ferrer is interested in methods to analyze change and intra-individual variability, in particular latent growth analysis and linear and nonlinear dynamical systems. His current research in this area involves techniques to model dyadic interactions as well as multivariate processes associated with reasoning and reading achievement from childhood to adolescence. His Dynamics in Psychological Science (DIPS) lab is dedicated to advancing the science of psychology via the synthesis of intra and inter-individual approaches to studying psychological processes. Specifically, he is interested in how intra-individual dynamical information can be retained and used to explain inter-individual differences across a population.