J. Galen Buckwalter

Chief Science Officer at psyML, Former Founding Chief Science Officer at eHarmony

Los Angeles

Dr. J. Galen Buckwalter has been a research psychologist for over 25 years, starting in academia where he worked primarily on the effects of hormones on cognition during pregnancy and aging while a professor at USC. Later, he started a behavioral outcomes research program at Kaiser Permanente and ultimately through a number of serendipitous events, became the creator of the assessment and matching system as the Chief Science Officer for eHarmony. Since then, Galen has worked in both academia and industry, including research at the Institute for Creative Sciences at USC using VR to develop a resilience training program for Marines, and most recently with Dr. David Herman, with whom he has founded psyML a high touch consultancy helping a diverse group of companies integrate psychometric data into all aspects of the customer engagement chain.