Melissa Kline Struhl

Melissa Kline Struhl is the Executive Director of Children Helping Science, a platform for remote participation in studies with infants and children in their homes. Under her leadership, CHS has hosted over 700 studies across more than 140 institutions, making it one of the largest infrastructure efforts for remote child research globally. She also runs the Psych-DS project — spellcheck for your social science datasets. Psych-DS provides tools for building and validating datasets, and works to create a consensus format that unlocks machine-readable data sharing for the social and behavioral sciences. Before joining the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences as a research scientist, she was a graduate student and postdoc in BCS and at Harvard University, and then worked on a large-scale project studying the reliability of claims in social science journals at the Center for Open Science.