Thomas Leeper

Dr Thomas J. Leeper is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Scientist at Facebook London. He works on Facebook's Core Data Science team, the mission of which is to conduct large-scale, global, quantitative research to gain deeper insights into how people interact with each other and the world around them.

Prior to joining Facebook, he was Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at LSE and earlier a Postdoc at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. His research uses quantitative, survey, and experimental methods to understand human social behaviour, including methodological research on survey experimentation and the development of computational tools for social scientists. He is the author of more than 30 R packages and his work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, The R Journal, and elsewhere. He holds degrees in political science from the Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota.

Education

• PhD Northwestern University (2008 — 2012)
• MA Northwestern University (2008 — 2009)
• BA University of Minnesota (2005 — 2007)

Companies

• Senior Visiting Fellow in Methodology The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2018)
• Research Scientist Meta (2018)
• Associate Professor in Political Behaviour The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2015 — 2017)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Aarhus University (Denmark) (2013 — 2015)
• Graduate Student Northwestern University (2008 — 2012)
• Graduate Fellow Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University (2009 — 2012)
• Research Assistant National Youth Leadership Council (2008 — 2008)
• Teaching Assistant University of Minnesota (2007 — 2007)

Skills

• Quantitative Research
• Survey Design
• SPSS

Other

Public Opinion, Teaching, LaTeX, Higher Education, Research Design, Social Sciences, Politics, R, Stata, Experimental Design, Statistics, Research, Political Science