Alexandru Cernat is a professor in the social statistics department at the University of Manchester. He has a PhD in survey methodology from the University of Essex and was a post-doc at the National Centre for Research Methods and the Cathie Marsh Institute. His research and teaching focus on: survey methodology, longitudinal data, measurement error, latent variable modelling, new forms of data and missing data. He am also the founder of longitudinalanalysis.com, a platform that helps researchers and analysts learn to collect, clean, and analyse longitudinal data. You can find out more about him and his research at: alexcernat.com.