Professor John Rust

I am now an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Member of Darwin College.

I was Founder of The Psychometrics Centre while at City University, London in 2002, and moved with it to Cambridge Assessment in 2005. In 2008 it became an academic unit of the University of Cambridge. I stepped down as Director in 2019.

Affiliations

• Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
• The Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Cambridge Neuroscience
• Centre for Science and Policy (CsAP)
• Cambridge Centre for Data Drive Discovery (C2D3)
•  John Rust CV.

My work covers pure and applied psychometrics in academic and business settings, the investigation of advanced computational techniques in test development, publishing psychometric tests and questionnaires, and the adaptation of tests for the UK market.

The Psychometrics Centre

From 2011 until 2016, when The Psychometrics Centre moved from the Psychology Department to the Cambridge Judge Business School, it was a global hub of activity in the field of online data analytics, using psychometric techniques together with big data. The picture, above or on the left, shows most of the team and was taken at a celebration of Michal Kosinski’s PhD, attained in January 2014.  Dr Michal Kosinski is now Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dr David Stillwell, is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Judge Business School and current Director of The Psychometrics Centre. Dr Aiden Loe is Head of Science at Maki People. Dr Sandra Matz is David W. Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. Dr Luning Sun is Research Director of The Psychometrics Centre, and Research Associate in Organizational Behaviour at the Judge. Dr Youyou Wu is Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development at University College London.