Our team

Canonical source: For the most up-to-date team information, see our Team page at unjournal.org.

The information below may lag behind the main site. Team members can update details in our internal Coda workspace.

The Unjournal was founded by David Reinstein, who maintains this GitBook and other resources.

See also: Governance of The Unjournal

Management Team

• David Reinstein — Founding Director

• Anirudh Tagat — Co-Director (Monk Prayogshala)

• Davit Jintcharadze — Manager of Operations

• Gavin Taylor — Staff (RF Antivirals)

• Bob Kubinec — Staff (University of South Carolina)

• Hansika Kapoor — Staff (Monk Prayogshala)

• Ryan Briggs — Staff (University of Guelph)

• Emmanuel Orkoh — Staff (Nordic Africa Institute)

• Rosie Bettle — Staff (Founders Pledge)

• Alexander Herwix — Staff (Cologne Institute for Information Systems)

• Andrei Potlogea — Staff (University of Edinburgh)

Advisory Board

Our advisory board includes 14 members with expertise in economics, public health, statistics, and research methodology:

• Andrew Gelman — Columbia University

• Sam Abbott — London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• Anca Hanea — University of Melbourne

• Gary Charness — UC Santa Barbara

• Jonathan Berman — London Business School

• Daniela Cialfi — University of Chieti

• Jordan Dworkin — Federation of American Scientists

• Jake Eaton — Asterisk Magazine

• Conor Hughes — University of Minnesota

• Jana Lasser — Graz University of Technology

• Nicolas Treich — Toulouse School of Economics

• Michael Wiebe — Data Scientist, Economist Consultant

Field Specialists

We have 60+ field specialists and research affiliates organized by expertise areas including development economics, global health, behavioral science, environmental economics, AI governance, and animal welfare.

The table below shows team members taking on research-monitoring roles (see field specialist role description):

Evaluator Pool

Over 200 people have signed up to assess research for The Unjournal, including approximately 90 PhD holders and 40 professors.

Interested in becoming an evaluator? Sign up here.

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Other collaborators and consultants

We maintain relationships with many researchers and initiatives in open science and impactful research, including:

• Abel Brodeur — Institute for Replication

• The repliCATS project

• Eva Vivalt — University of Toronto

• Cooper Smout — Free Our Knowledge

• Brian Nosek — Center for Open Science

• Ted Miguel — BITSS, Berkeley

• Daniel Saderi — PREreview