Robert Thibault, PhD

• Data Science

Dr. Robert Thibault is a Program Officer at the Coalition for Aligning Science and Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP). Dr. Thibault aims to make scientific research more trustworthy, rigorous, open, and efficient. He earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from McGill University, where he led a field-wide consensus to establish research standards for the field of neurofeedback. More recently, Dr. Thibault completed postdoctoral training with leaders in the field of Open Science at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University (METRICS) and the UK Reproducibility Network at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on how to improve scientific research, with a particular interest in study registration, statistical practice, and innovative research workflows. In 2022, he was awarded the Open Science Innovator Prize from the Center for Open and Reproducible Science at Stanford University.