Sebastian Castro-Alvarez

Sebastian Castro-Alvarez is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Human Development, University of California, Davis. He holds a Ph.D. in Behavioral and Social Sciences from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, preceded by a master's degree in the same field and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

• Research Focus: Psychometrics and intensive longitudinal data analysis.
• Methodologies: Dynamic factor analysis, structural equation modeling (SEM), and item response theory (IRT) for time series data.
• Goal: Advancing awareness of measurement error handling in psychological longitudinal studies.