Michael N. Hallquist, Ph.D.

Michael Hallquist is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a core faculty member in both the Clinical Psychology program and the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory. He directs the Developmental Personality Neuroscience Lab at UNC, focusing on decision processes and neurocomputational systems that underlie reward sensitivity, personality pathology, and suicidal behavior. His work is funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental and he has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers. Michael is a committed teacher who has taught graduate courses on data visualization and structural equation modeling; he has also co-organized ‘R bootcamp’ workshops for graduate students. He is committed to disseminating advanced quantitative methods and recently co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology. Prior to completing his graduate training in psychology, Michael worked as a computer programmer, focusing on relational database design and distributed component object models. These experiences provided the foundation for his passion for scientific programming, particularly in R. He has developed or contributed to multiple R packages, including MplusAutomation and ggbrain.