Emilio Ferrer

Emilio Ferrer serves as a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where he specializes in advanced quantitative methods for studying human development and social dynamics.

His academic background includes:

• B.S. in Physical Education from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• B.A. in Sociology from Universidad de Alicante, Spain
• Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Virginia (advised by Jack McArdle and John Nesselroade)

Dr. Ferrer's research program centers on methodological approaches for analyzing change and variability within individuals over time. He is particularly known for his work with linear and nonlinear dynamical systems models applied to psychological data. His methodological expertise enables researchers to extract meaningful patterns from intensive longitudinal data reflecting social interactions between individuals in relationships such as parent-child, teacher-student, and spousal pairs. A significant portion of his work focuses on latent growth analysis techniques and their application to understanding the development of fluid reasoning across the lifespan.

As a leading scholar in his field, Dr. Ferrer co-edited the influential volume Statistical Methods for Modeling Human Dynamics and authored the forthcoming Dynamics of Dyadic Interactions. His contributions to methodological psychology were highlighted in his 2015 colloquium presentation at the University of British Columbia where he discussed approaches for extracting dynamics from intensive interaction data and evaluating their validity for predicting future system states.