Miguel Silan is a psychological science researcher and methodologist from the Philippines. He took is M.A. in Social Psychology (minor in Organizational Psychology) in the University of the Philippines Diliman and is undertaking his PhD in Psychology in the Université Lumière Lyon 2. He focuses on meta-methodology (when do our methods work and fail?) especially with methods for vulnerable populations. In his role as a methodologist, he has worked with various organizations on-the-ground to improve the lives of everyday Filipinos – having worked with Save the Children Philippines, Psychosocial Support and Children’s Rights Resource Center, National Research Council of the Philippines, Ateneo Policy Center and Social and Political Psychology Laboratory – UP Diliman.

Miguel Silan also serves as the Assistant Director of the Psychological Science Accelerator, a globally distributed network of laboratories across more than 80 countries. He focuses on engaging scholars from developing nations, and in rethinking how to do large-scale multi-country collaborations. His current projects focus on the philosophy of psychometrics, especially across cultures. He tackles the methodological and measurement problems of fuzzy constructs in psychology.