Brooke Magnus

Brooke Magnus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. She earned her PhD in Psychology (with a minor in Biostatistics) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory. Her research focuses on psychometric model development for clinical and health outcomes, including item response theory (IRT) applications to survey data. She teaches statistics courses and mentors graduate students applying psychometric methods to substantive research areas.

Her work emphasizes improving measurement practices in clinical settings, particularly through zero-inflated models for symptom data and IRT-based instrument validation. Key research areas include traumatic brain injury outcomes, neurodivergent youth bullying assessment, and pediatric health measurement. She collaborates across psychology, medicine, and public health disciplines.

Recent work highlights advancements in TBI severity characterization, concussion assessment tool comparisons, and autism spectrum disorder psychometric analyses. Her methods bridge quantitative psychology and biostatistics to address gaps in clinical measurement precision.