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Stefan Gaillard
Stefan Gaillard specializes in failure, uncertainty, and erroneous claims – both in science and society. He is one of the co-founders of the journal, and currently works on the special issue on scientific failure in the health domain. He is also the chair of the Center of Trial & Error, and the editor of the Reflection Articles.
Sarahanne's a metascientist who conducts research on the science reform movement and the community associated with it. She's also interested in what goes wrong with science, and in how and why it has gone wrong. She’s also interested in responsibility and ethics in research conduct. She’s the journal’s editor-in-chief, as well as the metascience Section Editor. She also handles registered report submissions.
She holds a PhD in metascience, and is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
David is currently a PhD student at Heidelberg University & GESIS bridging the gap between Cognitive Psychology & Measurement Theory.
He is editor of the Psychology section of the Journal of Trial & Error, striving to embrace the Center's openness concept of publishing & academic exchange for Psychology.
Elvire is currently finalizing her PhD in epidemiology in Bonn and already started as a postdoc at Tilburg University. As someone who is intimately familiar with having to abandon projects because of unexpected results or faulty experiments, she is eager to about the Journal of Trial and Error’s mission of learning from each other’s (scientific) failures. She is the editor of the Life Sciences section.
Sean is a Behavioural Scientist working with the Public Health Agency of Canada. He holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from McGill University, with particular expertise in Cognitive Psychology and Quantitative methods. Working now at the intersection of policy and academia, he emphasizes the importance of understanding what doesn't work as a fundamental part of the scientific process and a critical element if we are to use our scientific knowledge to inform effective social change.
