Alberto Maydeu-Olivares University of Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Maydeu-Olivares has been Assistant Professor of Statistics and Econometrics at the Universidad Carlos III, Professor of Marketing and Quantativative Methods at the IE Business School, and he is currently ICREA-Academia Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Barcelona. Among other awards he has received the American Psychological Association (div 5) Dissertation Award, the Young Investigator (Cattell) Award from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the Catalan Young Investigator Award. He has published over 70 refereed articles and edited two volumes: Contemporary Psychometrics (2005) and Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology (2009). He is currently President-Elect of the Psychometric Society.