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ACTIVE TEAM MEMBERS
Principal Investigator
Claude Fischer
Claude S. Fischer is Principal Investigator of UCNets and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Fischer arrived at Berkeley in 1972 with degrees from UCLA and Harvard.
Director
Leora Lawton
Leora Lawton is the Director of UCNets and Executive Director Emerita of the Berkeley Population Center.
Active Collaborators
Faculty
- Tara McKay, Vanderbilt University
- Shira Offer, Bar Ilan University
- Stacey Torres, University of California San Francisco
Postdoctoral Scholars
- Keun Bok Lee, University of California, Irvine
Graduate Students
- Xavier Durham
- Emily Ruppel
- Chris Soria
Partners
- The Henne Group assisted with data collection in Wave 3, and is providing support for the LGB supplement.
- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California
- Berkeley Population Center, University of California
- Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California
ORIGINAL TEAM MEMBERS (no longer active)
Data Analyst
Gene Kazinets. Gene Kazinets is the data analyst for the UCNets project.
Sampling Statistician
Thomas Piazza is the sampling statistician with the UC Berkeley Survey Research Center.
Faculty
- Lisa Berkman, Harvard University
- Calvin Morrill, UC Berkeley
- Trond Peterson, UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Scholars
- Stephanie Child, UCNets Postdoctoral Fellow
- Tuba Demir Dagdas, UC Davis
- Jordan Weiss, Stanford University
Affiliated Researchers
- Eric Giannella
Graduate Students
- Lindsay Bayham
- Andrei Boutyline
- Esther Cho
- Xavier Durham
- Casey Homan
- Keunbok Lee
- Darius Mehri
- Gauthami Penakalapati
- Liana Prescott
- Zawadi Rucks
- Emily Ruppel
- Matt Stimpson
- Mia Zhong
Undergraduate Students
- Ashley Sandoval
- Nick Garcia
- Chris Soria
- Willis Wilson
Partners
- Nexant, Inc. assisted in the conducting of the Wave 1 and Wave 2 data.