A bit about me

Rizqy Amelia Zein is an assistant professor of social psychology, working at Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya, Indonesia. I’m also a researcher-in-training at IGDORE, a volunteer at INArxiv - a OSF-hosted pre-print server in Indonesia, and a member of Indonesia Open Science Team. Just recently, my ECR friends and I decided to start Airlangga #OpenScience, which mainly focuses on promoting open scientific practices in Universitas Airlangga (and beyond). I’m also a researcher-in-training at Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE) and a tutor in Wawasan Terbimbing Sains Terbuka Indonesia (WIBISANA) – the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) of open science adoption in Indonesia.

As an aspiring PhD, I’m interested in conducting research on science denialism by looking at its relation with conspiracy belief, collective narcissism, epistemic virtue/belief, religiosity and general/intellectual humility. I’m also very passionate about research methods, meta-research, reproducibility, psychometrics, and advanced statistical analysis. Apart from my daily responsibilities, I’m determined to practise my programming skill and created this website using blogdown package. My favourite packages are including lavaan, lme4, tidyverse, and psych.

I was born in Lombok, a beautiful island next to Bali, but spent most of my childhood in Surabaya, Indonesia. Apart from my academic life, I enjoy cooking for my husband Ilham and my 3.5 year old daughter, Ayesha.

If you want to set up an appointment, you can drop me an email, or request an appointment through my Doodle MeetMe page.