Denny Borsboom, University of Amsterdam

2025 Presidential Address

about the speaker

Denny Borsboom is Full Professor of Psychological Methods at the Psychology Department of the University of Amsterdam, and director of its Social and Behavioural Data Science Centre. His research focuses on the conceptual analysis of psychometric concepts, the development of new psychometric techniques, and the construction of formalized psychological theory. Borsboom’s research on the use of complex systems and network models in the context of psychometrics and psychopathology research is concentrated in the Psychosystems Project. The Psychosystems team developed alternative representations of psychological constructs as networks of interacting variables, which has led to innovative methodologies to estimate such structures and to new theories of psychopathology. Recently, he has started developing methodology to promote formal theory construction in psychology, a research line that is concentrated in the Theory Methods Lab. Denny Borsboom is the current President of the Psychometric Society.