Rizqy Amelia Zein is a research associate (postdoctoral researcher) in the DFG-funded project “SocEnRep: Automating Reproducibility in Economics and the Social Sciences,” and has been working at CAIS since January 2026. Within the project, she focuses on eliciting reproducibility requirements and user feedback, developing badges, software documentation and creating training materials.
A social psychologist by training, she received her PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2025. She is broadly interested in metascience, reproducibility, improving the quality of psychological measurements, and understanding people’s experiences with science and religion.
Curriculum Vitae
- Since January 2026: Research Associate/Postdoctoral Scholar at Research Data & Methods team at CAIS (“SocEnRep: Automating Reproducibility in Economics and the Social Sciences”)
- October to December 2025: Research Associate at “META-REP: A meta-scientific program to analyze and optimize replicability in the social, behavioral, social and cognitive science”
- October 2021 to September 2025: External PhD Student, Chair or Social Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, PhD funded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
- Since 2015: Assistant professor in social psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia (on leave)
- 2011 – 2015: Adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
- 2012 – 2013: Master of Science (M.Sc.) Social Research at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- 2008 – 2011: Student research assistant, Research and Publication Unit at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
- 2007 – 2011: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Psychology at Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia