Open
Science
Tools

Scientists, making better open tools, for scientists.

Our Mission

To facilitate and promote Open Science with high-quality, minimal-cost tools

We support that Mission by the following Principles:
  1. Maintaining open practices and code ourselves, wherever feasible
  2. Generating sufficient revenue to allow our tools to be professionally maintained
  3. Doing right by our staff, by being a respectful and thoughtful employer
  4. Doing right by contributors to our open source code, by valuing their contributions and time
  5. Doing right by the larger community by creating high-quality, affordable tools, and nurturing a helpful, inclusive culture

The tools we make

PsychoPy

PsychoPy is one of the most popular open-source packages for running experiments in psychology, neuroscience and related behavioral sciences. Built to be:

  1. Precise enough for psychophysics
  2. Easy enough for teaching
  3. Flexible enough for everything else

PsychoJS

PsychoJS is the JavaScript port of the PsychoPy library. The idea behind PsychoJS is to make PsychoPy experiments available online, from a web page, so participants can run them on any device equipped with a web browser such as desktops, laptops, or tablets.

Pavlovia

Pavlovia.org is like:

  • Open Science Framework, except built with Git version control
  • GitHub for psychologists, except other psychologists will find your work
  • An experiment server, allowing you to run your study. Actually, it isn't a bit like that. It is exactly that!

The Open Science Tools Team

The team at Open Science Tools are passionate about science, passionate about creating easy powerful software and passionate about good value. Like our users, they are nearly all scientists, from a wide range of fields, from all over the world.

Directors

Jon Peirce

Jonathan Peirce, PhD.

Founder and CEO
Alain Pitiot

Alain Pitiot, PhD.

Chief Technical Officer
Rebecca Hirst

Rebecca Hirst, PhD.

Chief Science Officer

Operations

Leesann Sutherland

Leesann Sutherland

Operations Manager

Science Team

Sue Lynn Mah

Sue Lynn Mah

Science Officer
Kim Dundas

Kimberley Dundas

Science Officer
Wakefield Morys-Carter

Wakefield Morys-Carter

Science Officer

Dev Team

Todd Parsons

Todd Parsons

Software engineer
Matthew Cutone

Matthew Cutone

Software engineer
Sol, from Open Science Tools

Sol Simpson

Software engineer
Nikita Agafonov

Nikita Agafonov

Software engineer