In 2017, Sacha Epskamp completed is PhD on network psychometrics – estimating network models from psychological datasets and equating these to established psychometric modeling techniques. He has implemented these methods in several software packages now routinely used in diverse fields of psychological research. Sacha Epskamp teaches on multivariate statistics and data science, and his research interests involve reproducibility, complexity, time-series modeling, and dynamical systems modeling. In addition to the psychometric society dissertation prize, Sacha Epskamp has received several rewards for his research, including the Leamer-Rosenthal Price for Open Science (2016).