Simine Vazire Awarded 2025 Einstein Foundation Individual Award
The editor-in-chief of APS’s journal, Psychological Science, is recognized for promoting quality in research.
Simine Vazire, editor-in-chief of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal Psychological Science and professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne, is this year’s recipient for the Einstein Foundation Berlin’s Individual Award.
Vazire is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility, and collaborative research in psychology, shaping initiatives such as the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and the journal Collabra.
As editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, Vazire implements innovative policies to promote transparency. Through her blog Sometimes I’m Wrong, her podcast The Black Goat, and social media engagement, she inspired countless early career researchers and shapes the conversation on research reform.
An APS Fellow and past APS Board member, Vazire cofounded SIPS and served as its inaugural president. Under Vazire’s leadership, SIPS was structured to integrate diversity and inclusiveness into its governance and initiatives, ensuring representation across early career researchers, non-PhD institutions, and scholars outside North America.
She also cofounded the open-access journal Collabra: Psychology, which prioritizes methodological rigor rather than novelty or impact.
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The Einstein Foundation will award her €150,000 ($USD 172,815) to continue prioritizing meticulous research, and she views it as recognition of the mentors, colleagues, and students whose support has made her contributions possible.
“The award helps validate my choice to spend time on this topic,” she says. “It belongs just as much to all the people who made it possible for me to make this the focus of my work for the last 10 years, and the people who championed me more than I ever deserved.”
Colleagues describe her as a visionary and relentless advocate for reform.
“Simine Vazire talks the talk and walks the walk,” writes Brian Nosek, the director of the Center for Open Science.
The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research honors researchers and institutions whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality and robustness of research findings. The award is bestowed jointly with the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité – Universitäts-medizin Berlin.
“The 2025 awardees demonstrate that improving research quality is both possible and powerful: through pioneering leadership, coordinated national reform, and rigorous methodological innovation,” says Ulrich Dirnagl, founding director of the QUEST Center at BIH and award secretary. “Their achievements strengthen the foundations of reliable, transparent science worldwide.”
The award is presented in three categories to individual researchers, institutions, and early career researchers. Awardees are selected by a prestigious international jury of experts from various disciplines. The individual and institutional awards are funded by the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft, while the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research supports the Early Career Award. Additional resources are made available by the State of Berlin.
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