Summary
Aaron Sterling is a first-year PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago who specializes in advancing personality assessment through mixed-method and mixed-theory approaches. With nine years of research-adjacent experience across university labs and roles in admissions and public media, he blends rigorous quantitative study—examining personality predictors of athletic performance in basketball and Formula 1—with qualitative, social-cognitive work on virtue assessment. His background in psychology and philosophy from Tulane, plus hands-on lab work including olfactory studies of body odor and strength, gives him a rare cross-disciplinary toolkit for measuring complex human traits. Based in New Orleans, he brings both academic curiosity and practical research operations experience, from piloting studies to running participants. Notably, he pursues questions about individual differences that are as much conceptual as methodological, aiming to rethink how personality is qualified and quantified.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Senior, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Senior at Tulane University