Speaker
Katie Thompson
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University
Biography
Dr. Katherine Thompson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, genomics, and sociology, using innovative statistical approaches to integrate large-scale longitudinal data to better understand mental health. She specializes in complex longitudinal designs, including structural equation models, multilevel and matrix-based mixed models, and analyses of genetic and family data. She has led projects across multiple longitudinal cohort studies in the USA and UK, taught MSc statistics courses, and delivered intensive R workshops focused on family data. Her work emphasizes open and reproducible analytical practices.